Original Articles COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENDOSCOPIC VS EXTERNAL DACRYOCYSTORHINOSTOMY

Abstract

Background:
This study was carried out to compare the success rate of external and endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) in patients with nasolacrimal duct obstruction.

Material & Methods:
Interventional study design was opted. Total 80 patients were divided into two groups with 40 patients in each group. Group 1 underwent external DCR while group 2 underwent endoscopic DCR in Akhtar Saeed Trust hospital from 1/2/2017 to 31/1/2020. The success rate of endoscopic group was compared with the external group in regular follow up after 7th post-op day, one month, 3 months, 6 months and one year. All the data was entered and analyzed with SPSS version 20. Quantitative variable like age was presented as mean and standard deviation. Qualitative variables were calculated in frequencies and percentages.

Result:
The success rate in terms of relief of epiphora was 92.5% in endoscopic group as compared to 85% in external group.

Conclusion:
The endoscopic DCR showed better results than the external DCR.