AFFILIATIONS:
- Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Department
of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Milan, Italy
- Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Clinical Sciences and
Community Health, Milan, Italy
- 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.