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Background: A symptom-based questionnaire (the" Lac-Q'questionnaire) for adult patients undergoing lacrimal drainage surgery was developed. The questionnaire yields a

Methodology: In this study, the questionnaire was evaluated in 17 consecutive patients undergoing 22 dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) procedures. The questionnaire was admin-istered pre-and postoperatively. The pathology encountered at operation was recorded The success of surgery was judged by patient satisfaction, endoscopic evaluation of DCR stomal patency, and objective lacrimal drainage testing using the functional endoscopic dye test (FEDT). In a further group of 12 pre-operative cases, the questionnaire was repeated after 4-6 weeks but before surgery, to assess test-retest reliability in the absence of clinical

Results: The Lac-Q questionnaire was based on two broad categories of eye-specific scores and social impact scores. A …