Endoscopic endonasal sinus surgery represents the overall accepted type of surgical
treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis. Notwithstanding raised and still evolving quality …

Purpose To provide a literature review on lymphoproliferative lesions involving the lacrimal
drainage system. Methods The authors performed a pubmed search of all articles published …

The main purpose of this paper is to provide the information about the incidence and types
of pathology of secondary acquired obstructions of the lacrimal excretory outflow system …

AIM To analyze cases of obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct which creates a fertile
environment for secondary bacterial infection and can result in dacryocystitis, which is a …

Background Acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction is a blockage of the lacrimal outflow
system usually caused by local nonspecific inflammation of the lacrimal sac and the …

Background During dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR), the lacrimal sac wall biopsy is not
routinely performed in our hospital, but it is recommended if there is a suspicion of …

Endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (En-DCR) success can be affected by many
factors. In this study, we aimed to determine the effect of chronic inflammation on the surgical …

Antibiotic pretreatment is routine for chronic dacryocystitis (DC) patients. Herein, the
longitudinal effects of antibiotic pretreatment before dacryocystorhinostomy for DC patients …

Purpose: To describe the frequency, clinical features, and histologic subtypes of biopsy
proven lacrimal sac lymphomas, and to compare these results to the previously published …

The most common lacrimal sac pathology is chronic inflammation with or without occlusive
fibrosis. However, a substantial number of lacrimal sac-specific pathologies were reported …