Management of Bilateral Congenital Lacrimal Punctal and Canalicular Atresia and Congenital Fistula of the Lacrimal Sac

An 8-year-old girl presented with complaints of bilateral epiphora since birth. The patient had congenital punctal and canalicular atresia combined with congenital fistula. She was treated successfully with surgery. A review of the literature indicated very few reports of surgical treatment of such...

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Autores principales: Shah, Shreya, Shah, Mehul, Khandekar, Rajiv
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20616928
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.63075
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spelling pubmed-28921372010-07-08 Management of Bilateral Congenital Lacrimal Punctal and Canalicular Atresia and Congenital Fistula of the Lacrimal Sac Shah, Shreya Shah, Mehul Khandekar, Rajiv Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report An 8-year-old girl presented with complaints of bilateral epiphora since birth. The patient had congenital punctal and canalicular atresia combined with congenital fistula. She was treated successfully with surgery. A review of the literature indicated very few reports of surgical treatment of such cases. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2892137/ /pubmed/20616928 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.63075 Text en © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Shah, Shreya
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Khandekar, Rajiv
Management of Bilateral Congenital Lacrimal Punctal and Canalicular Atresia and Congenital Fistula of the Lacrimal Sac
title Management of Bilateral Congenital Lacrimal Punctal and Canalicular Atresia and Congenital Fistula of the Lacrimal Sac
title_full Management of Bilateral Congenital Lacrimal Punctal and Canalicular Atresia and Congenital Fistula of the Lacrimal Sac
title_fullStr Management of Bilateral Congenital Lacrimal Punctal and Canalicular Atresia and Congenital Fistula of the Lacrimal Sac
title_full_unstemmed Management of Bilateral Congenital Lacrimal Punctal and Canalicular Atresia and Congenital Fistula of the Lacrimal Sac
title_short Management of Bilateral Congenital Lacrimal Punctal and Canalicular Atresia and Congenital Fistula of the Lacrimal Sac
title_sort management of bilateral congenital lacrimal punctal and canalicular atresia and congenital fistula of the lacrimal sac
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892137/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20616928
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.63075
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