[Alternatives to recovery of lacrimal duct patency].

Abstract

Based on his many years' experience in treating patients with lacrimal duct abnormalities and on his familiarity with the latest progress of endoscopic microsurgery of dacryocystitis, the author presents a historic analysis of the development of currently available surgical treatments of dacryocystitis in Russia and foreign countries. He reviews treatments divided into the following groups: 1) operations applying an external approach to the lacrimal sac, such as Toti's-type ones; 2) those applying an intranasal approach to the lacrimal sac, such as West's-type operations; 3) intranasal endoscopic microdacryocystorhinostomies; 4) intranasal laser microdacryocystorhinostomies; 5) transcanalicular endoscopic laser microdacryocystorhinostomies; 6) operations that recanalize the lacrimal duct; 7) medical treatments of dacryocystitis. The author emphases the merits and discloses the prospects of endoscopic microsurgical treatments for impaired lacrimal duct patency and dacryocystitis.

• Authors: V G Beloglazov
• Journal: Vestnik oftalmologii (Vestn Oftalmol) 2006 Jan-Feb Vol. 122 Issue 1 Pg. 8-12 ISSN: 0042-465X [Print] Russia (Federation)
• PMID: 16550679 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Dacryocystitis (surgery)
• Dacryocystorhinostomy
• Humans
• Microsurgery (methods, trends)
• Middle Aged
• Nasolacrimal Duct (surgery)
• Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures (methods, trends)
• Retrospective Studies
• Treatment Outcome