Tubo de Lester-Jones: indicações e resultados

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the results and the complications occurring with this procedure. Methods: The authors retrospectively reviewed charts of 25 patients (27 lacrimal viers) with upper lacrimal system obstruction who underwent conjunctivorhinostomy and Lester-Jones tube bypass. The patients were evaluated according to gender, causative factors and the complications during and after surgery. The data were submitted to statistical analysis. Results: The Lester-Jones bypass tube was used in both sexes and most frequently in patients under 10 or above 50 years. The most common obstructive factor was unknown and congenital agenesis. Eighty-eight per cent of the patients had no epiphora at the end of the treatment. Complications occurred in 59.25% of the patients, most of them related to tube extrusion (40.74%) or migration (14.8%). The authors concluded that the Lester-Jones bypass tube is a good option to treat the upper lacrimal obstruction, in spite of the observed complications.