Background: Dacryocystitis of the lacrimal sac, can be acute or chronic. Chronic dacryocystitis is prevalent, but uncommon, and it's usually caused by a nasolacrimal duct obstruction. Traumatic injury, infections, inflammations, neoplasms are all possible causes obstruction (NLDO). Whatever NLDO, it leads to stalling tears, accumulation mucoid secretions, desquamation cells, providing an ideal ...

Cross-sectional imaging has demonstrated an increasing role in the evaluation of the orbits and the periorbital structures. The case presented in this article demonstrates the rare finding of a dacryolith by CT. To our knowledge, little has been reported on cross-sectional imaging characteristics of this entity in the recent radiologic literature. We demonstrated that CT can be a useful tool in...

Dacryocystitis is inflammation of the lacrimal sac. Chronic dacryocystitis due to obstruction of nasolacrimal duct affects all ages and had been described by Galen as early as the second century BC.! It is most frequently seen in infants and in middle aged females. In the congenital type it is due to non-canalisation of the nasolacrimal duct and 50% undergo resolution by 6 months of age? Dacryo...

PURPOSE To study the glycoconjugates in the lacrimal sac epithelium of Japanese white rabbits with experimentally induced chronic dacryocystitis. METHODS Chronic dacryocystitis was induced by a subcutaneous injection of albumin followed by an injection of Staphylococcus aureus into the lacrimal sac. The histological appearance of the lacrimal sac was studied using the alcian blue-periodic aci...

INTRODUCTION Dacryocystitis is an infection of lacremical sac due to obstruction of nasolacrimal duct which has primary or secondary causes. Idiopathic inflammatory obstruction is the primary cause. Trauma, infection, inflammation, neoplasia, and mechanical obstruction are secondary one. AIM The objective of this study is determination of bacterial samples from patients with chronic acquired ...

The effect of different treatment regimens on clinical and microbiologic cures of neonatal conjunctivitis was evaluated during a 32-day observation period. In 84 infants with mild to moderate conjunctivitis and no signs of dacryocystitis, clinical cures were achieved in more than 50% of the cases with lid hygiene only. Staphylococcus aureus was the most common organism (48%) isolated from these...