Association between septoplasty, Lund-Mackay score and Lund-Kennedy score with endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy results

ABSTRACT

Purpose

To compare endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (endo-DCR) + septoplasty with endo-DCR alone and determine the relationship between sinusitis and endo-DCR surgery results.

Methods

Our study included 55 patients with nasolacrimal duct obstruction (NLDO) between June 2017 and June 2019. Patients were divided into two groups as endo-DCR alone and endo-DCR + septoplasty. Patients’ symptoms were thoroughly evaluated and scored using the Lund-Mackay (LM) score and the Lund-Kennedy (LK) system. According to LK endoscopy scoring; those with a score of 0 were determined as group 1 (40 (58.8%) cases); and those with a score greater than 0 were determined as group 2 (28(41.2%) cases). According to LM CT scoring system, cases whose score was 0 were determined as group 1 (44(%66.2) cases); those greater than 0 were determined as group 2 (23(33.8%) cases).

Results

A total of 68 endo-DCR surgeries, 42 unilateral and 13 bilateral, were performed. Forty one cases (60.3%) were managed with endo-DCR alone, and septoplasty surgery was performed in 27 (39.7%) cases in addition to endo-DCR due to septum deviation. There was no statistically significant difference in functional and anatomical success between the two groups in terms of surgery type (anatomical success p = .353, functional success p = .528); LK endoscopy scoring (anatomical success p = .956, functional success p = .925) and LM CT scoring system (anatomical success p = .202, functional success p = .172).

Conclusion

LK endoscopy and LM CT scores did not show any influence on functional and anatomic outcomes in endo-DCR cases.

KEYWORDS:

• Endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy
• Lund-Kennedy score
• Lund-Mackay score
• septoplasty
• sinusitis

Disclosure statement

The author declares that he has no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the article.

Compliance with ethical standards

Ethical approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.

Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.