AIM To compare the success and complication rates, duration of surgeries and clinical comfort after endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (END-DCR) or external dacryocystorhinostomy (EXT-DCR). METHODS Fifty patients who underwent EXT- or END-DCR between January 2010-2012 were involved in the study. A questionnaire was applied to patients preoperatively, and postoperatively. Subjective success was ...

UNLABELLED Dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is a procedure used to create a lachrymal drainage pathway into the nasal cavity in order to reestablish the permanent drainage of a previously obstructed excretory system. AIM to report our results obtained with endoscopic DCR technique, describing its advantages and disadvantages STUDY DESIGN Historic cohort. MATERIAL AND METHOD we retrospectively ...

BACKGROUND Granulicatella adiacens, a recent taxonomic addition, is a commensal organism of the oral, gastrointestinal, and urogenital tracts and is rarely encountered in the orbit and eye. FINDINGS We present a 46-year-old Caucasian woman with chronic dacryocystitis who underwent an external dacryocystorhinostomy and was found to have G. adiacens. CONCLUSIONS This is an unusual causative o...

OBJECTIVES To determine the outcome and long-term efficacy of external dacryocystorhinostomy (ext-DCR) with or without bicanalicular silicon intubation in patients with functional nasolacrimal drainage obstruction (FNLDO). MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with epiphora and patent lacrimal systems on nasolacrimal irrigation were prospectively enrolled in the study. Each patient was assessed with...

BACKGROUND/AIMS External dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is a reliable but difficult surgical technique for the treatment of any obstruction of the lacrimal drainage system lying distal to the internal opening of the common canaliculus. In this prospective study, a simplified external DCR procedure and the results obtained on a series of 45 consecutive patients, in which traditional external DCR wa...

PURPOSE To analyze the success rate and complications in patients with lacrimal obstruction submitted to surgeries. METHODS The data of patients operated in the "Hospital do Servidor Público Estadual of São Paulo" were analyzed. The lacrimal intubation was performed with a silicone tube, removed after 8 weeks. Surgeries were considered successful in those cases where patients had no postopera...

PURPOSE To assess the outcomes of external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCREx) performed by residents at the Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, comparing the cases operated on by residents and the cases operated on by staff surgeons. METHODS We performed a retrospective study between January 2006 and December 2007 of all DCREx performed at our hospital. The operations involved 65 cases from 54 pat...

PURPOSE To evaluate the prophylactic use of antibiotics in external dacryocystorhinostomy for the prevention of postoperative complications. METHODS This study included 697 patients diagnosed with distal nasolacrimal duct obstruction and who were operated on by the same surgeon. Direct culture of the lacrimal sac content was carried out. Data were collected regarding clinical signs and sympto...