[A crystallographic method of examining the lacrimal fluid in the diagnosis of various eye diseases].

The authors analyze the results of examinations of the lacrimal fluid by the crystallographic method in 123 patients with inflammatory, dystrophic, and tumor diseases of the eyes and orbit and in 20 healthy controls. The examinations have revealed essential changes in the lacrimal fluid crystallograms of normal subjects and patients with various ocular and orbital diseases, which fact recommends this method as one of the tools for the differential diagnosis of diseases of the organ of vision.