Dacryocystectomy: indications and results

Matayoshi, Suzana; Baak, Alfred Van; Cozac, Alexandra Lemos; Sardinha, Mariluze; Fernandes, José Byron Vicente Dias; Moura, Eurípedes da Mota

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“…However, in some cases with dacryocystitis, dacryocystectomy might be necessary because of delayed treatment. 17 Matayoshi et al . detected epidermoid carcinoma development localized in a leishmania area after 2 years following the development of leishmania-related conjunctival nodules and dacryocystitis.…”

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Periocular involvement in cutaneous leishmaniasis

Durdu¹,

Gökçe²,

Bağırova

et al. 2006

Acad Dermatol Venereol

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“…Three out of four dacryocystitis patients were clinically healed after intramuscular pentavalent antimonial treatment, and one patient recovered after intralesional treatment without any complications. However, in some cases with dacryocystitis, dacryocystectomy might be necessary because of delayed treatment 17 …”

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Periocular involvement in cutaneous leishmaniasis

Durdu¹,

Gökçe²,

Bağırova

et al. 2006

Acad Dermatol Venereol

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“…13 l. Severe atrophic rhinitis. 13 m. Lacrimal sac mucopyoceles with nasal malformations, 13 congenital partial arrhinia, or nasal hypoplasia.…”

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Dacryocystectomy

Ali

2014

Ophthalmic Plastic &Amp; Reconstructive Surgery

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Dacryocystectomy is a well-established oculo plastics procedure that refers to a complete surgical extirpation of the lacrimal sac. It was first described by Woolhouse in 1724 and was the standard of care before the advent of dacryocystorhinostomy for management of dacryocystitis and lacrimal fistulas. Although it is a seldom performed procedure worldwide, it still has its place in the surgical armamentarium for certain specific indications like malignant lacrimal sac tumors. It is almost always performed through an external skin incision except in certain exceptional circumstances where endoscopic dacryocystectomy may be needed. This article discusses the indications, goals, techniques, and complications of a dacryocystectomy.

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“…35 Hirschberg credits Woolhouse with being the first author to recommend dacryocystectomy, a treatment which was standard for recalcitrant dacryocystitis until the invention of dacryocystorhinostomy in 1904, and which can still be used when the latter procedure is inappropriate. 113 Historians have known of Woolhouse’s method only because it was described by Platner and by Duddell. Woolhouse’s words on the matter have never been published.…”

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A Family of Early English Oculists (1600-1751), With a Reappraisal of John Thomas Woolhouse (1664-1733/1734)

Leffler

Schwartz

2017

Ophthalmol Eye Dis

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Introduction:John Thomas Woolhouse (1666-1733/1734), who practiced in Paris, was part of a family with 5 generations of English oculists. Some historians have derided him as a “charlatan” and have criticized him for adhering to the old notion that a cataract was a membrane anterior to the lens.Methods:We reviewed treatises and digital records related to Woolhouse and his family and the handwritten notes of his 1721 lecture series at the Royal Society of Medicine.Results:We have identified 5 generations of oculists in Woolhouse’s family, by the names of Atwood, Stepkins, Ivy, and Beaumont. Woolhouse taught students from across Europe. He was one of the early proponents in Europe, inspired by Asian medical practices, to perform paracentesis to release aqueous for a new condition called hydrophthalmia. In Woolhouse’s system, some of these cases probably described angle-closure glaucoma. He was the first to attach the name glaucoma to the palpably hard eye in 1707. He may also have been the first to teach that a soft eye was unlikely to recover vision. Credit for these teachings has traditionally gone to one of his students, Johannes Zacharias Platner, in 1745. Some historians have stated that he proposed iridectomy as a theoretical procedure, which was later performed by Cheselden. In fact, Woolhouse described techniques he had performed which today would be called pupilloplasty, synechiolysis, or pupillary membrane lysis. He was also a pioneer in dacryocystectomy for chronic dacryocystitis and in congenital cataract surgery. His writings from 1716 onward repeatedly (and correctly) stressed that most of the patients with visual disorders required depression of the crystalline lens (for what he called glaucoma), as opposed to removal of an anterior membrane (which he called cataract).Conclusions:Woolhouse was a bold ophthalmic innovator and teacher who made major contributions which have lasted to this day. Although he did not admit it, he ultimately adopted much of the evolving understanding of the nature of lens opacities. However, his stubborn refusal to adopt the newer semantics has detracted from a full appreciation of his contributions.

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Dacryocystectomy: indications and results

Abstract: DCT is mainly performed when a lacrimal sac tumor is suspected but, since it avoids the intra- and postoperative complications related to dacryocystorhinostomy, it can be indicated in cases of dacryocystitis with significant lacrimal discharge and an enlarged or altered lacrimal sac.

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Periocular involvement in cutaneous leishmaniasis

Periocular involvement in cutaneous leishmaniasis

Dacryocystectomy

A Family of Early English Oculists (1600-1751), With a Reappraisal of John Thomas Woolhouse (1664-1733/1734)

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