Experience with donor sclera for extruding orbital implants.
Accumulated clinical evidence has confirmed the suitability of eye bank sclera as a structural and reconstructive material for lid and orbital surgery. Since 1970 we have been using fresh donor sclera. In our series of sixty-four cases, seventeen were for extruding or extruded orbital implants. Of these seventeen only two had any sort of complication, and these were easily corrected. This technique has permitted a successful prosthetic fitting within six weeks following surgery, with good cosmesis in all cases.
D002648:Child; D005137:Eye, Artificial; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008722:Methods; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery; D012590:Sclera / Q000637:transplantation*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous