Enucleation is done for -a) Retinoblastomab) Malignant melanomac) Glaucomad) Pthisis bulbie) Vitreous hemorrhage
High-Yield Explanation
Indications of Enucleation
Absolute: - Retinoblastoma, malignant melanoma.
Relative: - Painful blind eye, mutilating ocular injury, anterior staphyloma, phthisis bulbi, endophthalmitis, congenital anophthalmia or severe microphthalmia.
Indications for evisceration
Endophthalmitis not responding to antibiotics
Improvement of cosmosis in a blind eye
Panophthalmitis
Indications of exentration
Large orbital tumors
Orbital extension of intraocular tumor