[Formation of a stump after enucleation]

Despite the progress achieved in the treatment of ocular diseases, removal of the eyeball still has to be resorted to rather often. The records of 12 hospitals of Moscow over a year evidence 678 enucleations and eviscerations, 248 (39 percent) of these for oncologic diseases, 189 (29.1 percent) because of injury aftereffects, 153 (24 percent) because of glaucoma, and 58 (8 percent) because of ocular inflammations. Common enucleation was carried out in 203 of +/- 400 patients (except oncologic ones) and enucleation with implantation of biological and synthetic drafts in 197 cases, i.e. in half of the patients who needed it; this is explained by the absence of the necessary implants in hospitals. A bank of grafts should be created for centralized provision of ocular hospitals.