Bilateral lacrimal sac mucocele with punctal and canalicular atresia

• Main Authors: Ong, C.A., Prepageran, Narayanan, Sharad, G., Luna, D.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Malaysian Medical Association 2005
• Subjects: R Medicine
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/24541/1/Bilateral_Lacrimal_Sac_Mucocele.pdf; http://eprints.um.edu.my/24541/; http://www.e-mjm.org/2005/v60n5/Bilateral_Lacrimal_Sac_Mucocele.pdf
• Institution: Universiti Malaya

Congenital absence of lacrimal puncta may be an isolated finding or associated with other developmental abnormality. Nasolacrirnal ducts can be absent thus predisposing to the formation of a congenital lacrimal mucocele. Punctal and canalicular agenesis is very rare. Four percent of new patients att...