[Problems of the diagnosis and differential treatment procedures in congenital dacryocystitis]

The paper analyses effectiveness of treatment for dacryocystitis in 223 children, aged from 1 months up to 15 years. In 35 children the process was bilateral. In 232 cases dacryocystitis was congenital, in 26--acquired. Complex examination of lacrimal and upper respiratory tracts has revealed pathology in 53% of cases. In these cases preliminary sanation of upper respiratory tracts was made. A scheme of a staged treatment for congenital dacryocystitis is proposed, and results after treatment by retrograde catheterization in 161 children aged to 1.5 year and by endonasal dacryorhinostomy in 62 children above 2.5 years of life are analysed.