Bilateral Lymphocytic Infiltrates Causing Dacryostenosis After Bilateral Successful Dacryocystorhinostomies
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Ophthalmic Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
- Vol. 4 (2) , 105-108
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00002341-198804020-00009
Abstract
A 73-year-old woman with a history of chronic lymphocytic leukemia had bilateral dacryocystorhinostomies for bilateral chronic dacryocystitis. The procedures were performed 7 months apart. Twenty-four months after the first dacryocystorhinostomy on the left side, the patient developed a mass in the area of the left lacrimal sac causing epiphora. A repeat dacryocystorhinostomy revealed a lymphocytic infiltrate causing the left dacryostenosis. Thirty-three months after the right dacryocystorhinostomy, the patient developed a right dacryostenosis with epiphora and no mass. Pathology specimens obtained during a repeat dacryocystorhinostomy on the right side revealed a similar lymphocytic infiltrate. This case is an unusual presentation of solid lymphoma in a traumatized area in a patient with chronic lymphocytic leukemia.Keywords
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