title: Endoscopic Intranasal dacryocystorhinostomy in forty-five patients.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To observe the results of endoscopic intranasal dacryocystorhinostomy.
  
  
  METHODS
  Forty-five patients (forty-eight eyes) suffering from chronic dacryocystitis received endoscopic intranasal dacryocystorhinostomy after November 1991, and were followed up for 3 to 36 months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Thirty-nine eyes were cured (81.2%). It is significantly effective (8.3%) in 4 eyes, and effective in 2 eyes (4.2%). The total effective rate was 93.7%.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The intranasal approach is simple causing little bleeding and no facial scar. With the self-made dacryocyst-illuminator (diameter = 0.8 mm), and by transilluminating the lacrimal sac with fiberoptic intraocular endoilluminator bundle, the sac can be located endonasally, thus facilitating the approach.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology, General Hospital of Nanjing Command.
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhou
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003607:Dacryocystitis / Q000601:surgery*; D003608:Dacryocystorhinostomy / Q000379:methods*; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged