The cut-and-paste method for primary pterygium surgery: Long-term follow-up

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 298-301

  Koranyi, Gabor ^a   Seregard, Stefan ^a   Kopp, Eva Dafgård ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Eye; Fibrin; Glue; Human; Pterygium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA EDEMA; CORNEA LIMBUS; CORNEA PERFORATION; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE RISK; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SCLERA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLERA; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 21044447288     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0420.2005.00465.x     Document Type: Review

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