Book excerpt: * Concise text, showing all you need to know at a glance * Beautiful, clear, full colour pictures, illustrating the procedures involved * Step-by-step description of the most common lacrimal operations CONTENTS: Anatomy and embryology; Physiology and age changes; Pathology; Lacrimal assessment of evaluation of a patient with epiphora; The nose; Paediatric lacrimal problems; Adults, functional epiphora; Adult, Nasolacrimal duct obstruction acture and chronic; Post-operative management after dacryocystorhinostomy; Recording lacrimal findings in the notes; Recent innovations