Prescribing spectacles for anophthalmic patients.
Clinical situations exist where socket reconstruction after enucleation is incomplete and additional surgery is contraindicated. The resultant cosmetic disfigurement may have a profound effect on the patient. An illustrative case is presented. Available methods of anophthalmic camouflage are reviewed, and a relatively inexpensive technique is described that relies on optical cosmesis to give the patient a natural and symmetric appearance.
D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005137:Eye, Artificial; D005139:Eyeglasses; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged