This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Reply to article  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (5)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Report of Sixteen Cases

A. B. VICENCIO, M.D.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1956;55(2):267-268.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

In view of the natural aversion of our people toward undergoing a major operation, such as dacryocystorhinostomy for the relief of epiphora, which to them is a trivial ailment, and more of a nuisance than a threat to life and vision, I was indeed happy to read of Veirs' successful use of the nylon rod and polyethylene tubing.¹

Since then I have inserted nylon thread through the lower punctum and the inferior canaliculus and into the nasolacrimal duct, following exactly the method of Veirs, in 10 cases, and the polyethylene tubing in 6 cases, of nasolacrimal duct stenosis secondary to chronic, purulent dacryocystitis.

Recently, Oliver² inserted polyethylene tubing in 18 cases and concluded that the best results were achieved in cases of dacryocystitis with ectasia of the sac. Peyret³ introduced a short polyethylene tube through the sac into the lacrimal duct, leaving it in situ, and claimed . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Cebu City, Philippines

Footnotes
Received for publication Dec. 12, 1955.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?