"Eye Evisceration" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The surgical removal of the inner contents of the eye, leaving the sclera intact. It should be differentiated from ORBIT EVISCERATION which removes the entire contents of the orbit, including eyeball, blood vessels, muscles, fat, nerve supply, and periosteum.
| Descriptor ID |
D017234
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E04.540.431
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| Concept/Terms |
Eye Evisceration- Eye Evisceration
- Evisceration, Eye
- Eviscerations, Eye
- Eye Eviscerations
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Eye Evisceration" by people in Profiles.
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Eagle RC, Grossniklaus HE, Syed N, Hogan RN, Lloyd WC, Folberg R. Inadvertent evisceration of eyes containing uveal melanoma. Arch Ophthalmol. 2009 Feb; 127(2):141-5.
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Nissman SA, Pasternak JF. Delayed-onset expulsive choroidal hemorrhage attributed to an acute elevation in systemic blood pressure following traumatic globe rupture. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging. 2005 Jul-Aug; 36(4):340-2.
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Bilyk JR. Enucleation, evisceration, and sympathetic ophthalmia. Curr Opin Ophthalmol. 2000 Oct; 11(5):372-86.
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Cruz CS, Cohen EJ, Rapuano CJ, Laibson PR. Microbial keratitis resulting in loss of the eye. Ophthalmic Surg Lasers. 1998 Oct; 29(10):803-7.