title: Aesthetic considerations in the reconstruction of the anophthalmic orbit.
abstract: Twenty-four patients with severe anophthalmic orbit syndrome were treated with a combination of techniques utilizing autogenous tissue. Autogenous corticocancellous bone grafts were used in the orbit as a volume filler. The temporalis muscle and a fasciae flap with a pericranial flap were used as a curtain to cover the bone grafts and to give a softening effect. The prosthesis used was a regular eye shell. With this method it can be smaller, thinner, and lighter to produce less deformation of the lower lid, particularly when used for a long period of time. In children who have this deformity compounded by small orbits after oncologic treatment, three-wall orbital enlargement is done to achieve a larger orbit, so as to match the normal unaffected socket and produce symmetry.
authors.affiliation: Tampa Bay Craniofacial Center, Institute of Human Resources, University of South Florida.
authors.forename: M B
authors.initials: MB
authors.lastname: Habal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000853:Anophthalmos / Q000601:surgery*; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D016025:Bone Transplantation; D002648:Child; D005137:Eye, Artificial; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009915:Orbit / Q000601:surgery*; D013518:Surgery, Plastic / Q000379:methods*; D013524:Surgical Flaps