KIAWAH ISLAND, S.C. — A study presented at Kiawah Eye found no difference in surgical outcomes between endoscopic and external dacryocystorhinostomy in adults and children with nasolacrimal duct obstruction.
The retrospective chart review included 20 children and 170 adults with a diagnosis of primary nasolacrimal duct obstruction or chronic dacryocystitis who underwent external or endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) in the last 10 years at one academic medical center.
“There was no difference between the two techniques in resolution of symptoms,” R. Bryce Robbins, MD,