Introduction: Dacryocystitis is a very common pathology and affects significant part of the population. Stenosis nasolacrimal ducts most frequent cause development dacryocystitis, main method treatment dacryocystorhinostomy. Material methods: to study stages dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR), various scientific journals (scientific from which we get information) were used. One first methods surgical ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the outcomes of transconjunctival dacryocystorhinostomy (TRC-DCR) surgery in patients with epiphora due to primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction (PANDO) at second year follow-up. METHODS In this retrospective, interventional study, 33 eyes of 29 patients, with epiphora due to PANDO, are included. Lower eyelid conjunctiva is incised at vestibulum inferomedially to ...

Purpose: Dacryocystorhinostomy surgery may result in significant postoperative scarring. Although other surgical techniques have been developed that achieve a better aesthetic result, the ab externo technique remains gold standard for this procedure. We telephone survey to evaluate visual impact of skin scars associated with dacryocystorhinostomy. Methods: 470 patients underwent uncomplicated e...

BACKGROUND External dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) is often performed under local anesthesia (LA) without adequate knowledge of the pain experienced by the patient. MATERIAL/METHODS We subdivided our surgical technique into stages easily understood by the patients (introducing cotton tipped applicators, performing parabulbar injection, creating the incision, bone cracking (opening the ostium), m...

OBJECTIVE To assess the long-term functional outcome of external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) in terms of epiphora. STUDY DESIGN Single-group cohort study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Section of Ophthalmology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, from January 2000 to June 2010. METHODOLOGY This study included adults who underwent external DCR surgery at the AKUH during January 2000 t...

THE value of draining an infected sac into the nose was recognized 1500 years ago by surgeons of the Byzantine School, who performed a crude dacryocystorhinostomy by passing a cautery through the sac and lacrimal bone. But such openings made by simple penetration rapidly close, and much surgical ingenuity has since been devoted to the problem of fashioning a permanent communication. At the begi...

Background: External Dacryocystorhinostomy was surgical procedure for the treatment of complete nasolacrimal duct obstruction in adults before the endoscopic dacryocystorhinosotomy. This study was done evaluate the rate of success of Endo DCR procedure in patients with chronic Dacryocystitis. Methods: The study was carried out in MGM Hospital Warangal and 60 pa ents were selected for the proced...