title: Baseball implant. A method of secondary insertion of an intraorbital implant.
abstract: A surgical technique for secondary emplacement of an orbital implant is described in which a spherical implant encased in a scleral homograft is placed in the orbit through a transconjuctival incision and sutured to the superior part of the periosteum.
mesh_terms: D003228:Conjunctiva / Q000601:surgery; D005137:Eye, Artificial; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery*; D012590:Sclera / Q000637:transplantation; D013518:Surgery, Plastic; D013536:Suture Techniques; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous