Inferior conjunctival autograft for primary pterygia

Ophthalmology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 806-810

  Syam, Padmanabha Pittai ^b   Eleftheriadis, Haratabos ^b   Liu, Christopher S C ^a  

^a SUSSEX EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CYST; EPITHELIUM; FEMALE; GAZE; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR FORMATION; STUDENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMBLEPHARON; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242500324     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0161-6420(02)01970-X     Document Type: Article

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