[Exenteration of the orbit].

The authors evaluate the number and results of exenterations of the orbit on account of malignant neoplasms originating in intraocular structures and penetrating into the orbit or malignant processes originating in structures of the orbital contents and tissues surrounding the orbit. These operations were made in a group of 156 patients with orbital disease hospitalized at the First Ophthalmological Clinic, Faculty Hospital and Medical Faculty, Comenius University, Bratislava in 1980-1992. During the mentioned 13-year period exenteration of the orbit was indicated in 22 patients, i.e. 14.1% from the total number of 156 hospitalized patients with orbital disease.