Intraoperative and postoperative use of mitomycin-C in the treatment of primary pterygium

Ophthalmic Surgery and Lasers

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 600-604

  Çalişkan, Sibel ^a   Orhan, Mehmet ^a   Irkeç, Murat ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LACRIMATION; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PHOTOPHOBIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENT DISEASE; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; CHEMOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; KERATOCONJUNCTIVITIS; MITOMYCIN; NUCLEIC ACID SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030036088     PISSN: 10823069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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