Management of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction
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A total of 585 infants and children, with 802 con genital nasolacrimal duct obstructions, were treated during a ten year old period, from June 1985 at StMichael's and St.Anne's hospitals in Colombo. All patients were initially treated medi cally (massage), and failures were subjected to probing, and when probing failed, to dilatation. Resolution with medical therapy was 86% in pa tients under two years, while there was a progres sive decline in the success rate (27%). Success rate for initial and second probing was 78% and 100% repectively, in children over two years, while in the two to eleven year age group the overall rate was 43%, without success above eight years. There was a progressive decline in success rate with probing, with increasing age in children.
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