Evisceration and enucleation have been acceptable therapeutic modalities to treat not only severe ocular trauma but also various conditions, such as intraocular tumors, endophthalmitis, blind-painful-cosmetically disfiguring eyes, over the last two centuries. Clinical indications choices of procedure, whether or evisceration, vary among institutions, surgeon experience, severity structure loss....

Spontaneous evisceration through the vagina was first described in 1907 by McGregor. To date, only eighty-five cases of transvaginal small bowel evisceration have been documented worldwide. The primary risk groups for spontaneous vaginal evisceration include postmenopausal women, vaginal surgery cases, multiparae, and women of older age. In postmenopausal woman, transvaginal evisceration is fre...

Vaginal evisceration is a rare complication after a hysterectomy, especially a radical hysterectomy. Up to now, there have only been three cases of transvaginal evisceration after radical hysterectomy reported in the English literature. We report one case of transvaginal evisceration occurring after radical hysterectomy and adjuvant radiotherapy for stage IIA cervical cancer, with a brief revie...

PURPOSE Evisceration is an alternative treatment modality to enucleation for many end-stage eye diseases. No study has addressed the indications for evisceration of eyes in Saudi Arabia. The aim of this study was to determine the current clinical indications for evisceration in patients at a tertiary eye care center and attempt clinicopathological correlation. METHODS Clinical records of pati...

OBJECTIVE- To describe the clinical characteristics, treatment, complications, and outcome of dogs and cats treated surgically for major abdominal evisceration. DESIGN- Retrospective case series. ANIMALS- 8 dogs and 4 cats. PROCEDURES- Medical records from January 1998 through March 2008 were reviewed to identify animals that underwent surgery for major abdominal evisceration. Data regarding ca...

BACKGROUND/AIM The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the reasons for eye evisceration surgeries performed from 2005 to 2013 in our clinic. MATERIALS AND METHODS The medical records of patients who underwent evisceration surgery over the past 9 years were retrospectively evaluated. Detailed data were reviewed, with a focus on the first precipitating factor for evisceration. RESULT...

Vaginal evisceration in premenopausal women after trans-abdominal hysterectomy is extremely rare in occurrence and only few cases have been documented in worldwide literature. Here we report a premenopausal woman with coitus induced trans-vaginal evisceration who had undergone trans-abdominal hysterectomy two years ago.This article highlights coitus as a trigger event for inducing vaginal evisc...

BACKGROUND To analyze the demographics, indications, and surgical outcomes of anophthalmic surgery (enucleation and evisceration) at Jordan University Hospital during a 5-year period. METHODS We conducted a retrospective chart review of patients who had undergone evisceration or enucleation between August 2006 and June 2011. The data collected included age at time of surgery, sex, affected ey...

OBJECTIVE The therapeutic approach to abdominal penetrating stab injuries has changed over the years from routine laparotomy to non-operative treatment. In case of organ or omental evisceration, although the laparotomy need is greater, non-operative treatment may be applied in selected cases. The aim of our study was to assess the follow-up and treatment outcomes of patients with organ or oment...