Purpose: Discuss the most important forms of treatment available nowadays and to report our experience with the surgical treatment of chronic canaliculitis. Methods: Retrospective study with 7 cases assisted at the Clínica Oftalmológica of HC-FMUSP in the last 3 years. Results: All the patients submitted to surgical treatment had complete cure of the signs and symptoms. Conclusions: We should always remember the possibility of canaliculitis in patients with epiphora and chronic secretion in the lacrimal punctum so that the appropriate surgical treatment can be established.
Eye infection, bacterial; Actinomycetales infections; Lacrimal apparatus diseases; Chronic diseases
