(mel´kәr-son) Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome (mel´kәr-son ro´zen-tahl) an autosomal dominant condition usually beginning in childhood or adolescence, characterized chiefly by chronic noninflammatory facial swelling, usually confined to the lips in the form of granulomatous cheilitis , with recurrent facial palsy and sometimes fissured tongue . Associated ophthalmic symptoms may include lagophthalmos , blepharochalasis , swollen eyelids, burning sensation of the eyes, corneal opacities, retrobulbar neuritis , and exophthalmos .
