Successful conjunctival socket expansion in anophthalmic patients until the age of 2 years: an outpatient procedure.

Purpose: To report the results of a simple outpatient method for soft tissue socket expansion in young children with congenital anophthalmos.

Methods: Seventeen congenital anophthalmic sockets of 15 infants of a mean age of 4.2±4.

Pushed monocanalicular intubation versus probing as a primary management for congenital nasolacrimal obstruction.

Purpose: Evaluation of efficiency, complications, and advantages of pushed monocanalicular intubation using Masterka(®) tube versus simple probing in patients with congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNLDO).

Patients And Methods: This is a case-controlled study that included 60 eyes (of 53 patients); 30 eyes underwent probing and 30 eyes intubation using the Masterka tube as a primary treatment for CNLDO. The children were aged between 6 months and 36 months at the time of surgery, with no previous nasolacrimal surgical procedure, and had one or more of the following clinical signs of nasolacrimal duct obstruction: epiphora, mucous discharge, and/or increased tear lake.