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Lacrimal Sac

Lacrimal Sac Tumors

• rare
• mass above medial canthal tendon
• complaints of EpiphLacora (Epiphora, patients with epiphora complain of watery eyes; it is when there is an imabance between production and drainage of tears. Visit the Lacrimal page for more details) or chronic dacryocystitis
• irrigation could pass to nose or blood could reflux from punctum
• CT could show extent of mass
• DCG could show filling defect
• could have skin ulceration, telangiectasia, + lymph nodes
• could originate from skin or nasal mucosal tumors
• benign squamous papillomas most common 1^o
• squamous cell carcinoma more than adenocarcinoma most common malignant tumor