Silicone intubation for the treatment of epiphora in adults with presumed functional nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Purpose: To evaluate the long-term efficacy of silicone intubation in adults with presumed functional nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study reviewed adults with unilateral or bilateral epiphora and presumed functional nasolacrimal duct obstruction treated with silicone intubation and followed for signs of treatment failure (defined as persistent epiphora or need for a secondary procedure). Median time to event (failure) after silicone intubation was calculated using Kaplan-Meier survival analysis.

Nonlaser endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy with adjunctive mitomycin C in nasolacrimal duct obstruction in adults.

Purpose: To determine the outcome and safety of nonlaser endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (NLEN-DCR) with the use of adjunctive mitomycin C (MMC) in congenital, traumatic, and primary acquired nasolacrimal duct obstruction in adults.

Design: Retrospective, nonrandomized, noncomparative, case series.

Participants: One hundred ninety-three consecutive adult patients underwent NLEN-DCR with the use of adjunctive MMC.

Nonlaser endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy with adjunctive mitomycin C in children.

Purpose: To determine the outcome and safety of pediatric endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy with the use of adjunctive mitomycin C.

Methods: A prospective, nonrandomized and noncomparative interventional case series study was performed in 71 consecutive procedures. Sixty patients 16 years of age and younger underwent nonlaser endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy with the use of adjunctive mitomycin C.