AFFILIATIONS:
  1. Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Milan, Italy
  2. Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Milan, Italy
  3. Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Department of Ophthalmology, Milan, Italy
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR: Domenico di Furia, MD, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Milan, Italy, Via Francesco Sforza 35, Milan, 20122, Italy. Tel.: +390255032823; e-mail domenico.difuria@unimi.it
KEYWORDS: Ear, Nose and Throat; Paediatrics and adolescent medicine; Ophthalmology
FUNDING SOURCE: This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
Key clinical message: Congenital dacryocystocele is a rare, usually unilateral, clinical condition, secondary to an incomplete canalization of the nasolacrimal duct, which can be treated by means of minimally-invasive marsupialization with microdebrider.