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Dacryocystorhinostomy: An age-old but still relevant approach to tearing
KOLOA, Hawaii — Dacryocystorhinostomy, a procedure that bypasses a blocked nasolacrimal duct, is a dated procedure but still a relevant one, according to a speaker here. “DCR is an old procedure,” Jeremiah Tao, MD, said at Hawaiian Eye 2017, citing the procedure as being thousands of years old while also citing success rates of 90% to 95% for external approaches and 80% to 90% for internal approaches.