Osteoma of the Medial Wall of the Maxillary Sinus: A Primary Cause of Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Osteomas causing epiphora—review of the literature.

Reference			Age	Sex	Osteoma location	Symptoms
[5]	1984	Sternberg and Levine	15	N/A^1	Ethmoid sinus	Epiphora
[3]	1999	Mansour et al.	66	F^2	Ethmoid sinus	Orbital cellulitis, epiphora
[6]	2003	Osma et al.	35	M^3	Ethmoid sinus	Epiphora
[7]	2003	Lin et al.	73	M	Middle turbinate	Ιpsilateral facial pain, epiphora, nasal obstruction
[8]	2005	Kandogan et al.	39	F	Ethmoid sinus	Epiphora, facial pain
[9]	2005	Zouloumis et al.	34	F	Ethmoid sinus	Headache, epiphora, proptosis
[10]	2006	Lachanas et al.	16	M	Ethmoid sinus	Epiphora, mild pain in area of median canthus
[11]	2010	Daneshi et al.	41	F	Middle turbinate	Nasal obstruction, epiphora, nasal discharge
[12]	2013	Kim and Kwon	49	M	Nasolacrimal duct	Ipsilateral ocular pain, epiphora, medial canthal swelling

N/A: not available.
²F: female.
³M: male.