Evulation of Intranasal Anatomy and Pathologies in the Etiopathogenesis and Treatment of Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction
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Methods The present study comprised 32 patients, who underwent Endonasal Endoscopic Dacryocystorhinostomy (EEDCR) due to NDO between 2005 and 2009 in the Ear Nose and Throat Clinic Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital, Ministry of Health, and 50 subjects without NDO as the control group. The patients were retrospectively compared. Ethics committee approval was obtained from the third Istanbul Clinical Research Ethics Committee (2009-KK-057). Mustafa Kule1, Zeynep Gökçen Kule1, Ali Okan Gürsel2, Murat Kaplan3
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