Evisceration Versus Enucleation Following Ocular Trauma, a Retrospective Analysis at a Level One Trauma Center.

CONCLUSIONS: The postoperative outcomes demonstrated for the evisceration group are comparable to enucleation, which is consistent with the recent literature. Defect size and complexity did not affect surgical construction of the scleral shell during evisceration. If consistently proven to be a safe and viable alternative to enucleation, evisceration can offer shorter surgical times and better cosmesis for patients. More research into the long-term complication rates and more cases of evisceration for use following ocular trauma should be assessed. Still, this analysis demonstrates that evisceration is a viable surgical alternative and perhaps superior to enucleation for the management of a non-salvageable eye following extensive ocular trauma in many cases. PMID: 31642476 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research