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Descriptor English: Lacrimal Duct Obstruction
Descriptor Spanish: Obstrucción del Conducto Lagrimal
Descriptor obstrucción del conducto lagrimal
Entry term(s) obstrucción del conducto nasolagrimal
Scope note: Interferencia con la secreción de lágrimas por las glándulas lagrimales. La obstrucción del saco lagrimal o CONDUCTO NASOLAGRIMAL ocasiona inflamación aguda o crónica del saco lagrimal (DACRIOCISTITIS). También se produce en niños por un defecto en la apertura del conducto nasolagrimal en el meato inferior y ocurre aproximadamente en la tercera semana de vida. En los adultos la oclusión puede presentarse espontáneamente o después de una lesión o enfermedad nasal. (Traducción libre del original: Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p250)
Descriptor Portuguese: Obstrução dos Ductos Lacrimais
Descriptor French: Obstruction du canal lacrymal
Entry term(s): Duct Obstruction, Lacrimal
Duct Obstruction, Nasolacrimal
Duct Obstruction, Tear
Lacrimal Duct Obstructions
Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction
Nasolacrimal Duct Obstructions
Obstruction, Lacrimal Duct
Obstruction, Nasolacrimal Duct
Obstruction, Tear Duct
Tear Duct Obstruction
Tear Duct Obstructions
Tree number(s): C11.496.456
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D007767
Scope note: Interference with the secretion of tears by the lacrimal glands. Obstruction of the LACRIMAL SAC or NASOLACRIMAL DUCT causing acute or chronic inflammation of the lacrimal sac (DACRYOCYSTITIS). It is caused also in infants by failure of the nasolacrimal duct to open into the inferior meatus and occurs about the third week of life. In adults occlusion may occur spontaneously or after injury or nasal disease. (Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p250)
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Entry Combination: surgery:Dacryocystorhinostomy
DeCS ID: 7944
Unique ID: D007767
NLM Classification: WW 208
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Date Established: 1966/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 2020/02/06
Lacrimal Duct Obstruction - Preferred
Concept UI M0012137
Scope note Interference with the secretion of tears by the lacrimal glands. Obstruction of the LACRIMAL SAC or NASOLACRIMAL DUCT causing acute or chronic inflammation of the lacrimal sac (DACRYOCYSTITIS). It is caused also in infants by failure of the nasolacrimal duct to open into the inferior meatus and occurs about the third week of life. In adults occlusion may occur spontaneously or after injury or nasal disease. (Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p250)
Preferred term Lacrimal Duct Obstruction
Entry term(s) Duct Obstruction, Lacrimal
Duct Obstruction, Tear
Lacrimal Duct Obstructions
Obstruction, Lacrimal Duct
Obstruction, Tear Duct
Tear Duct Obstruction
Tear Duct Obstructions
Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction - Narrower
Concept UI M000655648
Preferred term Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction
Entry term(s) Duct Obstruction, Nasolacrimal
Nasolacrimal Duct Obstructions
Obstruction, Nasolacrimal Duct



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