ting the inferior portion or dividing the medial canthal tendon [3, 4] . However, the cut ends must be sutured while closing the wound [4] . Even a disinserted canthal tendon needs to be sutured to the periosteum over the nasal process of maxilla. The authors irrigated methylene blue in the lacrimal sac for identification. This does not facilitate the sac incision site over the internal common ...

Mitomycin-C is a chemotherapeutic drug that acts by inhibiting DNA synthesis. Its use and application in ophthalmology has been increasing in recent years because of its mandatory effects on wound healing. Current applications include pterygium surgery, glaucoma surgery, corneal refractive surgery, cictracial eye disease, conjunctivalneoplasia, dacryocystorhinostomy surgeries and allergic eye d...

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 th...

BACKGROUND Surgical scarring on the face and disrupted anatomy in the medial canthal area following external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) can be avoided by an endonasal approach. This study examined the outcome of direct visualization endonasal DCR, performed by young surgeons and residents. METHODS A retrospective case series of 75 consecutive endonasal DCRs performed under direct visualizati...

To circumvent the disadvantages of endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy such as small rhinostomy size, high failure rate and expensive equipment, we hereby introduce a modified technique of non-endoscopic mechanical endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (NE-MEDCR). Surgery is performed under general anesthesia with local decongestion of the nasal mucosa. A 20-gauge vitrectomy light probe is introduced th...

Wegener granulomatosis (WG) is a life-threatening autoimmune disease of unknown etiology first described in 1936. The classic clinical triad consists of necrotizing granulomatous inflammation of the respiratory tract, necrotizing glomerulonephritis, and systemic vasculitis. Prior to the introduction of modern immunosuppressants, WG was usually fatal due to renal complications. Involvement of th...