[Alternatives to recovery of lacrimal duct patency].
Based on his many years' experience in treating patients with lacrimal duct abnormalities and on his familiarity with the latest progress of endoscopic microsurgery of dacryocystitis, the author presents a historic analysis of the development of currently available surgical treatments of dacryocystitis in Russia and foreign countries. He reviews treatments divided into the following groups: 1) operations applying an external approach to the lacrimal sac, such as Toti's-type ones; 2) those applying an intranasal approach to the lacrimal sac, such as West's-type operations; 3) intranasal endoscopic microdacryocystorhinostomies; 4) intranasal laser microdacryocystorhinostomies; 5) transcanalicular endoscopic laser microdacryocystorhinostomies; 6) operations that recanalize the lacrimal duct; 7) medical treatments of dacryocystitis. The author emphases the merits and discloses the prospects of endoscopic microsurgical treatments for impaired lacrimal duct patency and dacryocystitis.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003607:Dacryocystitis / Q000601:surgery*; D003608:Dacryocystorhinostomy; D006801:Humans; D008866:Microsurgery / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D008875:Middle Aged; D009301:Nasolacrimal Duct / Q000601:surgery*; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome