Eighteen Norfolk female rabbits, 45 days old, were divided into three groups of six animals and submitted to transpalpebral enucleation. Animals of group I received intraorbital auto-polimerized acrylic resin, the ones of group II received eqüine pericardium preserved in glycerin solution and animals of group III were control. Three animals of each group were euthanised 30 and 60 days after implantation for macroscopic and histopathologic evaluation of the orbital cavities. Although the resin has been applied during the doughy phase in which the high temperature produced by polimerization could be dangerous to the tissue, it was the product that showed the best result.
acrylic; pericardium; enucleation; intraorbital; rabbits
