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Enucleation is the removal of the eye that leaves the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact. This type of ocular surgery is indicated for a number of ocular tumors , in eyes that have sustained severe trauma, and in eyes that are otherwise blind and painful.
Printable version; In other projects ... As a general surgical technique, enucleation refers to the surgical removal of a mass without cutting into or dissecting it ...
A conformer is a clear acrylic shell fitted after an enucleation of the eye [1] if the final artificial eye is not available at the time of surgery, to hold the shape of the eye socket and allow the eyelids to blink over the shell without rubbing the suture line. The conformer shell holds the shape ready for the artificial eye, and is worn for ...
removing all the contents of the eyeball during evisceration (complete removal of all structures within the eye in diseases like endophthalmitis: Lid plate: flat large instrument that has a groove and is placed between the lid and globe of the eye to provide a solid support for eyelid surgery Hammer, chisel and bone gouge: bone cutting and shaping
Phthisis bulbi is a shrunken, [1] non-functional eye. It may result from severe eye disease, inflammation [2] or injury, or it may represent a complication of eye surgery. [3] Treatment options include insertion of a prosthesis, which may be preceded by enucleation of the eye. [4] [5]
If enucleation has a standard usage here for eye surgery, we should add a disambig page to disambig if from the general surgical technique. --InsufficientData 14:10, 14 January 2009 (UTC) Enucleation of the eye is strictly ophthalmic-specific. Other surgical enucleation can disambiguate.184.47.232.5 08:07, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
Autoenucleation, also known as oedipism, is the self-inflicted enucleation (removal) of the eye. It is considered a form of self-mutilation and is normally caused by psychosis, paranoid delusions or drugs. [1] Between 1968 and 2018, there were more than 50 documented cases of "complete or partial self-enucleation in English medical journals". [2]
Enucleation (surgery), the removal of a mass without cutting into or dissecting it Enucleation of the eye, removal of the eye that leaves the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact Self-enucleation, self-inflicted removal of the eye; Enucleation (microbiology), removing the nucleus of a cell and replacing it with a different nucleus