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104th DOG Annual Meeting

21. - 24.09.2006, Berlin

Endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy with operative microscope in acute dacryocystitis

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  • P. Troiano - Eye Clinic University of Milan, Polyclinic Hospital of Milan, Milan, Italy

Deutsche Ophthalmologische Gesellschaft e.V.. 104. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft (DOG). Berlin, 21.-24.09.2006. Düsseldorf, Köln: German Medical Science; 2006. Doc06dogSA.16.09

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Published: September 18, 2006

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The fact that so many different surgical procedures in chronic nasolacrimal duct obstruction are in use, shows that we still do not have for this pathology a reliable surgical technique.

The endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (endoDCR) is a scar-free surgery, but it has to be underlined that several different surgical procedures can be used: laser, non laser, endoscopic, microscopic, with or without stent.

We perform the endoDCR by an operative microscope, without laser and with a bicanalicular silicone stent implant.

This kind of endoDCR technique seems to be very useful particularly when acute dacryocystitis occurs, both because:

  • the pus accumulated can be easily drained from the lacrimal sac avoiding the arise of major complications such as orbital cellulitis and the lacrimal sac perforation, and
  • the impossibility to access to the lacrimal sac via the lacrimal puncta, due to the Rosenmuller valve occlusion.