Amniotic membrane graft for primary pterygium: Comparison with conjunctival autograft and topical mitomycin C treatment

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 84, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 973-978

  Ma, D H K ^a   See, L C ^b   Liau, S B ^a   Tsai, R J F ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL TEAR; FLUOROMETHOLONE; MAXITROL; MITOMYCIN C;

ADULT; AMNION; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE RISK; SCLERITIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; XENOTRANSPLANTATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMNION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033833538     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.84.9.973     Document Type: Article

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