Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recently a colleague referred a patient with a pterygium extending 2 mm onto the cornea (see “before” photo) ...
SAN FRANCISCO — Techniques for pterygium excision have not changed significantly from the past, but data from cumulative experience show that conjunctival autograft in combination with surgical ...
A pterygium is a raised growth in the surface of the eye (the conjunctiva) made mostly of collagen and tiny red capillaries. They are usually caused by extended exposure to sunlight. They may remain ...
The sizes of the pterygia were not an inclusion or exclusion criteria in this series of cases. 1 It included patients who had one, two and three previous pterygium excision surgeries. It also included ...
Surfer’s eye, or pterygium as it’s known scientifically, may seem like an obscure disorder, one which affects only the saltiest of elder surfers at your local break and is commonly recognized by its ...
Cloudbreak Pharma is riding the wave of new survey results highlighting patients’ desire for a new treatment option for the ocular disease pterygium—say, like the drug that Cloudbreak, coincidentally, ...
Wei Lin, Shu-Li Wang, Horng-Jiun Wu, Kuang-Hsi Chang, Peter Yeh, Chien-Jen Chen and How-Ran Guo Background: Pterygium is a fibrovascular growth of the bulbar conjunctiva and underlying subconjunctival ...
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