Directory of Conditions
What is Enucleation
About Enucleation
Enucleation operation is used to treat eye cancer. The operation is performed to remove the affected eye to prevent further advancement. A second procedure is Evisceration operation, which is used to treat an eye when it has been damaged through an accident and the operation is operation includes the removal of the inside contents of the eye, leaving the outer shell and the muscles intact. In both operations an orbital implant might be used to enhance the orbital volume. After surgery, a temporary transparent plastic shell is put in the eye socket to allow healing and give it shape.
The plastic shell is then replaced with a prosthesis (artificial eye) which is shaped in the form of a large-size contact lens and covers the implanted orbit in the socket of the eye. Instructions on how to remove and clean the artificial eye should be provided.
What is Eye Infection
About
Eye infections can invade the eyeball or the area around it – they are generally microorganisms that can be harmful, including viruses, bacteria and fungi.
What is Eye Redness
About
A bloodshot ‘red eye’ may be worrying but is rarely serious or causes pain. Symptoms often disappear within a few days, without treatment. But if it does not improve within a few days, there may be a more serious problem.
What is Eye Tumor
About Eye Tumor
Tumours inside and on the surface of the eye can be benign or malignant, and can also be primary or secondary tumours. Certain lesions in the eye such as naevi or moles are very common, and usually do not require treatment. Other lesions such as melanoma are rare, and require specialised treatment such as surgery or radiotherapy.
Risk factors
- Exposure to natural sunlight or artificial sunlight (such as from tanning beds) over long periods of time may cause a melanoma on the surface of the eye (conjunctival melanoma)
- Having light-colored eyes (blue or green eyes)
- Older age
- Caucasian descent
- Having certain inherited skin conditions, such as dysplastic nevus syndrome, which cause abnormal moles
- Family history
- having a mole in the eye or on the eye’s surface