Purpose: To investigate whether neonatal dacryocystoceles and dacryocystitis are associated with nasolacrimal duct cysts, and to report the outcomes of treatment of these disorders. Methods: This was a retrospective medical record review of two groups of infants with nasolacrimal duct (NLD) obstruction. The first group had dacryocystoceles with or without dacryocystitis. The second group had NL...

UNLABELLED The anatomical relation between the maxillary sinus and the nasolacrimal duct has gained greater importance with the advent of microsurgeries and endoscopic-assisted sinonasal procedures, and the growing use of endonasal surgery to perform middle meatus procedures and transnasal dacryocystorhinostomy. We did not find reports on maxillary sinus classification concerning its lacrimal r...

Aims and Objectives: To compare the success rates of non endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy and conventional external dacryocystorhinostomy for the surgical management of primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction. Materials and methods: A retrospective, nonrandomized, comparative interventional case series of 302 patients who underwent either endonasal or external dacryocystorhinos...

BACKGROUND We developed a novel surgical technique to treat punctal stenosis involving the placement of three interrupted sutures after rectangular three-snip punctoplasty (TSP). METHODS Retrospective chart review of forty-eight eyes of 44 patients who underwent rectangular TSP with three interrupted sutures was performed. We investigated whether anatomical recurrences (re-stenosis) occurred ...

Linear compartmental analysis was applied to lacrimal scintigraphy data from asymptomatic and obstructed lacrimal systems. Failure to achieve satisfactory results in most of the asymptomatic systems studied suggests that variable tear flow is a feature of normal lacrimal drainage which precludes linear analysis. However, in cases where the analysis was successful the results were consistent wit...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to describe canalicular stenosis as a mechanism for epiphora (excessive tearing) secondary to weekly docetaxel. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fourteen patients with metastatic breast cancer who developed epiphora during weekly docetaxel therapy underwent an ophthalmologic examination, and probing and irrigation of the nasolacrimal ducts. The total duration of d...

Chronic dacryocystitis results very often from obstruction to the nasolacrimal duct. It manifests as epiphora or watering of the eyes. The lacrimal sac gets expanded and also the wall of the sac gets thickened as a result of collection of mucopus due to obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct. Treatment of chronic dacryocystitis is by a surgical approach which consists of making an opening between...

PURPOSE To investigate the diagnostic effectiveness of dacryoscintigraphy in children with tearing; to evaluate tear clearance rate as a diagnostic factor of dacryoscintigraphy in children with tearing; and to analyze the results of treatment according to dacryoscintigraphic findings in children with tearing. METHODS Between January 2010 and April 2014, 176 eyes of 88 children with tearing (4...

Introduction: The Nasolacrimal duct is the terminal part of nasolacrimal apparatus or tear apparatus. anatomy lateral nasal wall Important for planning surgeries on lacrimal through intranasal approach. Objective: current study was designed to review in relation wall. Material and method: Thirty sagittal sections (14 right 16 left side) head neck formalin fixed adult cadavers known sex, gender,...

A 31-year-old man with epiphora and mucous discharge from a traumatic lacrimal fistula underwent a computed tomographic dacryocystogram, revealing a fistula extending from the anterior ethmoid air cells through the lacrimal sac to the overlying skin with coexisting nasolacrimal duct obstruction. Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy enabled complete marsupialization of the lacrimal sac and agger nas...