PURPOSE The aim is to compare the outcome of nonendoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (NEN DCR) with external DCR (EXT-DCR) in the treatment of nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO) in children. METHODS A retrospective, comparative chart analysis of all consecutive children <16 years after EXT-DCR or NEN-DCR between June 2012 and February 2016. RESULTS Seventy-one children (79 eyes) und...

OBJECTIVE To report revision external dacryocystorhinostomy (rE-DCR) results following failed dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) surgery. METHODS A retrospective review of patients who underwent rE-DCR between June 2006 and June 2015 at Yıldırım Beyazıt University Ankara Ataturk Training and Research Hospital Department of Ophthalmology. Data were collected on the primary surgery technique and patie...

to evaluate the clinical results of endoscopic endonasal surgical dacryocystorhinostomy (ees-dcr) as team work by an ophthalmologist and an ear-nose-throat (ent) surgeon and the appropriate selection of the patients this study performed.all candidates for dcr underwent computed tomography (ct) scan of the paranasal sinuses (pns). patients who did not want a scar on the medial canthus skin or wh...

PURPOSE To determine whether application of the anti-proliferation agent, mitomycin C (MMC), to the osteotomy site during dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) surgery increases surgical success rates. METHOD We conducted a comprehensive meta-analysis of randomised controlled clinical studies relating to the adjunctive use of MMC in primary and revision, as well as external (EX-DCR) and endonasal DCR (...

apoptosis is chromosomal DNA degradation by deoxyribonuclease (DNase)-mediated fragmentation. In mammals, these DNases include DNA fragmentation factor 40 kDa (DFF40) and its chaperone and inhibitor, DFF45. During apoptosis, caspases cleave DFF45, releasing DFF40 to cleave DNA. In Caenorhabditis elegans, however, no homologues of DFF40 and DFF45 have been identified, and it is unclear how apopt...

The aim of the study was to compare the outcome of external DCR with and without stenting with silicon tube and analyse the results of silicon intubation whether it improves the overall success rate of DCR. Success rate for external DCR without STI was 80% in our study .Success rate for DCR with STI rose to 92%.Therefore DCR with STI is a highly successful procedure with a success rate of over ...