30 patients had lacrimal sac mucocele and dacryocystorhinostomy was done for them with intraoperative mitomycin C was added to decrease postoperative fibrosis and recurrence.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
Bypass lacrimal passage obstruction by opening a shunt between the lacrimal sac and the nasal mucosa
Disappearance of the watering of the eye reported by the patients and by fluorescein disappearance test
Patency of the lacrimal passage
Time frame: 1 month
Disappearance of lacrimal sac swelling
No evident swelling in the medial side of the eye
Time frame: 1 month
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