Dacryocystitis - an inflammation of a dacryocyst, usually chronic. In the separate form allocate a dacryocystitis of newborns.

Etiology, pathogenesis. Narrowing or an occlusion of the nasolacrimal channel owing to inflammatory processes in a nasal cavity, about nasal sinuses, in the bones surrounding a dacryocyst that promotes a delay and development in itself of pathogenic microbes and leads to an inflammation of its mucosa. The dacryocystitis at newborns usually arises because of conservation of the germinal Membranula closing, the bottom department of the nasolacrimal channel.

Signs, current. In the field of a dacryocyst a tumescence without the inflammatory phenomena. At pressing on it from lacrimal openings there is a mucous purulent or purulent discharge. It is long a current dacryocystitis can lead to a stretching (ectasia) of a dacryocyst, the chronic dacryocystitis sometimes becomes complicated an acute inflammation of a dacryocyst in the form of an abscess or a phlegmon. At an acute dacryocystitis there is a morbid infiltrate in the field of a dacryocyst.