AIM: To investigate the effect of bicanalicular silicone tube intubation (BSTI) in treatment functional epiphora after endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (En-DCR). METHODS: Clinical data 84 patients (95 eyes) with En-DCR were retrospectively analyzed. Functional was confirmed as persistent or recurrent by fluorescein dye disappearance test (FDDT), lacrimal irrigation test, well examination. Secon...

PURPOSE To investigate microbiologic trends and role of biofilm on periorbital biomaterials surgically explanted for recalcitrant infection. METHODS A search of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine microbiology laboratory electronic database was conducted from 1980 to 2010. Culture results were analyzed from submitted periorbital biomaterials explante...

PURPOSE Dacryoscintigraphy is widely known to be an effective modality in diagnosing abnormalities of the lacrimal system that cause epiphora (pathological overflow of tear). However, dacryoscintigraphy rarely serves beyond the simple diagnostic use for lacrimal duct obstruction. In our study, dacryoscintigraphy results of patients with functional lacrimal duct obstruction are newly classified ...

An 83-year-old woman had undergone an external dacryocystorhinostomy with silicone intubation. Before the surgery, no skin lesions were observed on the incision site. Three months after surgery, the patient complained of a brown-to-black pigmented elevation at her previous skin incision site. A punch biopsy of the pigmented mass was performed. The histopathologic findings confirmed the clinical...