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Arquivos Brasileiros de Oftalmologia
Print version ISSN 0004-2749On-line version ISSN 1678-2925
Abstract
BRANCO NETO, Epaminondas Castelo; BRANCO, André Barbosa Castelo; BRANCO, Bruno Castelo and MARBACK, Eduardo Ferrari. Treatment of congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction. Arq. Bras. Oftalmol. [online]. 1994, vol.57, n.4, pp.248-253. ISSN 1678-2925. https://doi.org/10.5935/0004-2749.19940029.
A series of 48 children with congenital nasolacrimal system obstruction were treated with local hidrostatic massage of Crigler.
The obstruction was resolved in 42 (87,5%) patients. The six patients who didn't respond to the massage were cured with one probing of the nasolacrimal system.
Keywords : Nasolacrimal duct.