[Endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy: indications, technique and results].

From 1996 till August 1998 the authors made 24 EDCRS in 23 patients aged 35 to 80 years, incl. 6 men and 17 women. All patients reported epiphora, in 19 cases a mucous purulent secretion from the lacrimal pathways was present and 9 had a history of phlegmon in the area of the lacrimal sac.

[Rhabdomyosarcoma of the orbit].

A twenty-eight year-old female patient developed within one week a protrusion and deviation of the eyeball associated with pain and loss of vision. The sudden development, atypical course, obscure clinical picture suggest rather an inflammatory or vascular affection in the orbit; only subsequent development confirms the development of a malignant process in the orbit.