What is enucleace?
In medicine, enucleation concerns surgery, in which the surgeon removes the entire eyeball from eye or orbit. One of the three possible eye removal procedures is the enucleation procedure for choice for intraocular tumors. Other common reasons for enucleation include irreparable eye trauma, severe inflammation and uncontrolled pain in the blind eye. Ophthalmologists perform enucleacs as the last option in situations where the treatment cannot be appropriately managed in another way. Most patients who have undergone enucleation acquire an artificial prosthetic eye that will replace the extracted eye for cosmetic improvement.
The two most common eye tumors requiring enucleation are retinoblastic and eye melanomas. Retinoblastomas are malignant retinal tumors. Eye melanomas can affect the color part of the eye, iris or vascular eye coat, choroid. Melanomas come from abnormal pigment cells or melanocytes. When there are very large and there is no prospect of useful vision, enucleation is done,to avoid local and remote distribution of tumors. It is an inflammation of both eyes resulting from massive trauma to one eye. The body begins to mount the immune attack on the eye tissue of both eyes. The only way to treat the condition and save an undamaged eye is to remove the damaged eye.
General anesthesia in which the patient is fully unconscious is preferred anesthesia for enucleation. The surgeon discusses orbital tissues, including eye muscles, far from the eye. The optical nerve is interrupted by approximately one centimeter (0.45 inches) from the rear of the eye. Once the eye is extracted, an orbital implant that consists of hydroxyapatite or silicone rubber, fills the space with soft orbital tissue. To allow some of the artificial eye, the surgeon attaches the eye muscles to the implant.
As soon as the patient has recovered from enucleation, he can get a prosthetic eye. Okularist is a technician that specializeson the proposal and adaptation of artificial eyes. It creates the back surface of the prosthesis exactly to match the patient's orbit. Prosthesis can be painted to match the patient's colleague. Artificial eyes can take several decades.
Older models of orbital implants, usually plastic, do not move in agreement with colleagues. Progress in implants use porous material that allows the growth of blood vessels and fibrous tissue to the implant. The attached eye muscles move implants and recruited artificial eyes. This creates a more natural look for the patient.