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Objective: The aim of the current study was to evaluate the sutureless glueless conjunctival autograft for primary pterygium surgery as regard technique, complications and success rate. Patients and methods: This prospective study included a total of 30 patients with primary nasal pterygium, attending ...
Pterygium excisionBackground A Bangerter has introduced a surgery method by radial incision at 6 o'clock and turning the conjunctiva by 90掳. The success of this method was evaluated in a retrospective study. Material and Method Out of 38 consecutively operated primary ptygiums, using the ...
Table IV : Success rates reported in literature following conjunctival autografting in pterygium surgery. Author Year No. of eyes (primary; Average follow up Recurrence rate % Inclusion of limbal pterygium) (months) (eyes) tissue in the graft Kenyon 1985 57(16;41) 24 5.3(3) Yes Lewallen ...
The success of pterygium surgery has been defined by the rate of recurrence and the visual outcome [14,23]. With a better understanding of the scientific basis of pterygium and advancement of surgical techniques in recent decades, the clinical outcome of pterygium surgery (particularly with the CA...
Results: The main indications for surgery were for poor cosmesis and irritation. No intra operative or postoperative complications were noted and the grafts were well taken in all cases. Visual acuity was improved in 4 (16%) patients and the same visual acuity maintained in 15 (60%) and in...
It provides good tectonic support and cosmetic success and may be used as either an autograft or homograft. However, fascia lata has an increased risk of necrosis because of its poor vascularization and requires an additional surgery to obtain the graft tissue. Split thickness of dermal graft has...
an unintended conjunctival hole was made during the separating process of pterygium from the cornea at the time of surgery. Reoperation was not performed in any eyes. The Kaplan-Meier survival curve of probability of non-recurrence of pterygium is shown in Fig.2. The recurrence rate at 1 year...
surgery were 79% lower for subjects with amniotic membranes than forthose with conjunctival autografts (OR with 95% CI�0.21 (0.05; 0.94); p � 0.045). Our study conf i rms that the conjunctivalautograft surgeries present more favorable success rates in Polish Caucasian population when ...
Limbal-conjunctival autograft seems to be a useful treatment in pterygium surgery due to higher success rates and lower recurrence rates. Amniotic membrane grafts may be an alternative surgical technique for pterygium treatment for patients with or without glaucoma who might need glaucoma surgery in ...