EVISCERATION OF THE EYE (CLINICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS)
The results of clinico-pathohistological examination of eviscerated tissues in 44 patients following eye trauma (n=34) or endogenous pathological process (n=9) are presented. In one case, scleral stump after evisceration was examined. Based on the results, contraindications for evisceration were defined: 1) blind subatrophic eyes with lasting, chronic posttraumatic uveitis (morphological analysis in these cases showed signs of immune uveitis, bordering on sympathetic inflammation); 2) eyes with repeated trauma surgeries; 3) eyes with an endogenous pathological process. Regrettably, pathohistological examination of eviscerated tissues in these cases gave no definite picture of the pathological process that led to eye loss, which would be important for the assessment of reoperation efficacy and understanding of ethiopathogenesis in patients with an endogenous inflammation process. / Russian Ophthalmological Journal, 2009; 4:25-29.