Treatment of Epiphora in Connection with Endolacrimal Surgery using Trephines: New and Overview Data

Abstract

Endolacrimal surgery with Piffaretti's trephines, sometimes combined, when clinically indicated, with other procedures also known to ameliorate epiphora, can in particular improve (different conditions, surgeons, centers) epiphora's symptoms resistant to medical treatments in patients with patent lacrimal drainage system, and this apparently, even when pre-operative basal Schirmer-test values are low. By enlarged lacrimal sac, outcome is poor.