A woman aged 33 was admitted to the Unit on February 17, 1957. She had been referred by Mr. W. E. Heath from the Kent County Ophthalmic and Aural Hospital, Maidstone, where she had attended early in 1955 and again in July, 1956. Her complaint was of a swelling in the right lacrimal region which had slowly increased in size since her first attendance in 1955; recently there had been epiphora of ...

Tumors arising at the lacrimal sac are extremely rare, as a limited number of cases have been reported worldwide. They are commonly primary and the majority of them are malignant and epithelial in origin. Adenocarcinomas account for a small percentage of these tumors. Treatment of local disease mainly includes complete surgical resection. However, metastatic disease has a poor prognosis and the...