Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction Treatments

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• YONCA ÖZKAN ARAT

PURPOSE: This study was designed to determine the effect of long-term antiglaucoma topical medication on the ocular surface; measuring basal Schirmer's and tear break-up time tests using conjunctival impression cytology. METHODS: The ocular surfaces of 30 control subjects (group 1), 24 primary open-angle glaucoma pati…

PURPOSE: To evaluate the clinical efficacy and safety of silicone punctal plugs in various ocular surface disorders. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Medical records of patients who underwent silicone punctal plug insertion from January 1996 to November 2000 were retrospectively reviewed. The clinical data collected included sex…

• CEMİLE BANU COŞAR

AIMS: Endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) has some advantages over external DCR as a less invasive method with no skin incisions. But the success rate of the operation has not reached the level of external method. In this study, a wound healing inhibitor mitomycin C was used intraoperatively to prevent th…

• RAUF YÜCEL ANADOLU

AIMS: Endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) has some advantages over external DCR as a less invasive method with no skin incisions. But the success rate of the operation has not reached the level of external method. In this study, a wound healing inhibitor mitomycin C was used intraoperatively to prevent th…

• SUAT HAYRİ UĞURBAŞ

The surgical outcome of endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy was analyzed in 30 cases of postsaccal stenosis. Intubation with silicone tubing was used in 14 cases (46.7%) and not used in 16 cases (53.3%). Surgical success was evaluated subjectively and objectively. The patients' complaints were improved in 85.7%…

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• HAYDAR MURAT YENER

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The antimetabolite mitomycin-C is now being used in endoscopic transnasal dacryocystorhinostomies to prevent the closure of osteotomies. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A 0.5-mg/ml solution of mitomycin-C was applied to the osteotomy site for 2 1/2 minutes intraoperatively. Specimens from four patient…

BACKGROUND: To evaluate possible causative factors of unsuccessful dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) surgery, and present the surgical technique and results of revision external DCR in a tertiary referral center. METHODS: During 2001-2007, 79 patients (59 female, 20 male, 83 revised DCR sites) underwent revision external DC…

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• ERDİNÇ AYDIN

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