Endonasal Surgery of the Lacrimal Passages: Dacryocystorhinostomy and Canaliculorhinostomy With Intubation

Abstract

Rhinologists should take part in lacrimal surgery. Personal experience is decisive: the author's rate of good results from dacryocystorhinostomy rised from about 60 per cent during the years 1940–47 to about 95 per cent. Some important details are stressed. - Intubation of the lacrimal passages should be used on limited and strong indications only (failure by dacryocystorhinostomy persisting after revision, real canaliculostenosis, some posttraumatic conditions or congenital malformations). The tube has been fixed using a new method.