A modified trephining technique for the insertion of Jones tube.
The functional success of a Jones Pyrex tube depends on the accurate positioning of the tube. The modified trephining technique for the insertion of a Jones tube ensures accurate positioning by using a guide wire to maintain the selected position and direction of the tube while a 1.5-mm-diameter trephine cuts a cylindrical track around the guide wire, down which a straight Pyrex tube is threaded. The snug fit between the tube and the trephined track has minimized postoperative extrusion (5%) and migration (7%). This technique has been used to insert 93 tubes in 84 patients aged 7 to 83 years.
D003231:Conjunctivitis / Q000209:etiology; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006099:Granuloma / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007440:Intubation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D007766:Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D007767:Lacrimal Duct Obstruction / Q000628:therapy; D014207:Trephining / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*