Methods A single-centre, prospective, randomised controlled trial was carried out in 200 eyes of patients with primary pterygia who were advised pterygium excision with CAG. Enrolled participants were ...

Surfer’s eye, medically known as pterygium, is a benign growth of tissue on the conjunctiva—the clear covering of the white ...

Pterygium Excision Surgery. The most common surgical treatment for pterygium is excision, where the growth is carefully removed by an ophthalmologist. This procedure is typically performed under local ...

Surgical excision of pterygium not only improves visual blur due to astigmatism, but it also improves the quality of vision by significantly changing the higher-order aberration profile.

Background: Mitomycin C (MMC) and limbal conjunctival autograft (LCAU) are two known useful adjuvants in the prevention of pterygial recurrence. This study was conducted to compare the outcome of ...

The gold standard for pterygium removal is surgical excision with CAG . Several adjunctive treatment options have been developed to reduce the risk of pterygium recurrence . The safest and most ...

We describe a patient with acute scleral dellen (SD) after pterygium excision with simple conjunctival closure. In addition, we present a PUBMED review on the medical literature on early SD after ...

Patients (N=15) with clinically confirmed stage II primary pterygium were recruited at the Public Eye Center Makassar in Indonesia. Randomization occurred in a 1:1:1 ratio to receive a 2.5 mg ...

To identify the exact time point during after following pterygium excision with a modified technique of sutureless, glueless limbal-conjunctival autograft, when stabilization of the change in corneal ...

A pterygium consists of a triangular, thickened mass of conjunctival and subconjunctival fibrovascular tissue with elastotic degeneration that crosses the limbus and invades the cornea, possibly ...