title: [Treatment for chronic dacryocystitis by probing through naso-lacrimal duct under endoscopy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the possibility of curing chronic dacryocystitis by probing through naso-lacrimal duct under endoscopy.
  
  
  METHODS
  30 adult eyes with chronic dacryocystitis were divided into two groups: 20 treated under endoscopy as endoscopy group and 10 under rhinoscope as control.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In endoscopy group, treatment in all 20 eyes successed at the first time, but in control group only in 8 of the 10 eyes successed at the first time and the other 2 needed second surgery.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Treatment for chronic dacryocystitis by probing through naso-lacrimal duct under endoscopy is better.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Central Hospital,  Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin 300052.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: He
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease; D003607:Dacryocystitis / Q000601:surgery*; D004724:Endoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007440:Intubation; D008297:Male; D009301:Nasolacrimal Duct