Aim: To determine whether amniotic membrane can be used as an alternative to conjunctival autograft after pterygium excision. Methods: 287 eyes with either primary or recurrent pterygium were included ...

When conservative pterygium management strategies with lubricants and UV protection have not resolved symptoms and surgery is required, follow-up visits should be performed at 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, ...

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Case presentation A 40-year-old woman presented to our clinic with a recurrent pterygium and symblepharon in her right eye, 8 years after a previous pterygium excision. Her best corrected visual ...

Exclusion criteria were eyes with pseudopterygium, recurrent pterygium, corneal dystrophy or corneal degeneration, history of corneal infection, glaucoma, uveitis, ocular trauma or ocular surgery.

For example, regarding ranibizumab, subconjunctival ranibizumab had no effect on the extent of vascularization of primary pterygium (32), but it appeared to arrest growth in early recurrent pterygium ...

Most patients, (84.1%) had single-headed recurrent pterygium, the other 15.9% had double-headed recurrent pterygium. The study assessed the patients’ baseline characteristics, best corrected visual ...

41 eyes of 38 patients were identified who underwent recurrent pterygium excision surgery that met inclusion criteria. The observed postoperative recurrence rates were 0% (0 of 8 eyes) with CAU + MMC, ...

Patients with recurrent pterygium had a longer duration, higher-grade pterygium, and a higher prevalence of dry eye. Despite higher cytokine concentrations of IL-8, MMP-9, MMP-1, bFGF, and VEGF in ...

Ocular surface squamous neoplasia (OSSN) in clinically suspected pterygia occurs in approximately 0.3% of histopathologically analyzed samples, according to the results of a study published in Cornea.

Pterygium is a non-cancerous, triangular, fibrovascular membrane and one of the many ophthalmohelioses – ocular diseases where sunlight has been implicated in pathogenesis. Pterygia are acquired ...