Orbital exenteration: Institutional review of evolving trends in indications and rehabilitation techniques.

CONCLUSIONS: Exenteration appears to be life-saving in children with orbital extension of retinoblastoma. While patients exenterated for malignant eyelid tumors have the best chance of survival, those with orbital extension of uveal melanoma and adenoid cystic carcinoma of the lacrimal gland have the worst prognosis. PMID: 29039986 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29039986?dopt=Abstract

Source: Orbit - October 17, 2017 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Kiratli H, Koç İ Tags: Orbit Source Type: research