Late complications after pterygium excision with high dose mitomycin C instillation [9]

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1081-1082

  Hayasaka, S ^a   Iwasa, Y ^a   Nagaki, Y ^a   Kadoi, C ^a   Matsumoto, M ^a   Hayasaka, Y ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; DRUG MEGADOSE; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; SCLERA; SCLERA DISEASE; ULCER; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MITOMYCIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE; SCLERAL DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULCER;

EID: 0033829313     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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1. Scleromalacia presumably due to mitomycin C instillation after pterygium excision
2. Development of scleral ulceration and calcification after pterygium excision and mitomycin therapy
3. Serious complications of topical mitomycin C after pterygium surgery
4. Corneoscleral ulceration and corneal perforation after pterygium excision and topical mitomycin C therapy
5. Postoperative instillation of low-dose mitomycin C in the treatment of primary pterygia