Korean J Ophthalmol.  2015 Feb;29(1):66-67. 10.3341/kjo.2015.29.1.66.

Case Reports of Lacrimal Sac Tumors Discovered in Patients with Persistent Epiphora Following Dacryocystorhinostomy

• Lee KH
• Han SH
• Yoon JS

• KMID: 2360140
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3341/kjo.2015.29.1.66

Abstract

No abstract available.

MeSH Terms

Aged
Biopsy
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/diagnosis/*etiology
Dacryocystorhinostomy/*adverse effects
Eye Neoplasms/diagnosis/*etiology
Female
Humans
Lacrimal Apparatus/pathology/*surgery
Lacrimal Apparatus Diseases/diagnosis/*etiology
*Postoperative Complications
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Computed tomography (CT) scan and operation images of epiphora patients diagnosed with tumor in lacrimal duct (A,B). Preoperative orbital CT images of the 75-year-old female patient show a 3-cm mass at the right lacrimal sac. (C) An excisional biopsy was performed and a mass invading the lacrimal sac and the inferomedial orbit was found (D) and (E). Preoperative orbital CT images of the 51-year-old female patient show a mass invading the left lacrimal sac and the inferomedial orbit. (F) An excisional biopsy was performed and a mass invading the left lacrimal sac was observed.

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