Pterygium surgery: Conjunctival autograft using a fibrin adhesive

Cornea

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 34-36

  Marticorena, Joaquín ^a   Rodríguez Ares, Maria T ^a   Touriño, Rosario ^a   Mera, Purificación ^a   Valladares, Maria J ^a   Martinez De La Casa, Jose M ^b   Benitez Del Castillo, Jose M ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conjunctival autograft; Fibrin adhesive; Pterygium

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE;

ABNORMAL SENSATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONJUNCTIVA; CONJUNCTIVA AUTOGRAFT; CORNEA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREIGN BODY SENSATION; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; SAFETY; SCLERA;

ADULT; AGED; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PTERYGIUM; TISSUE ADHESIVES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 29744441348     PISSN: 02773740     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ico.0000164780.25914.0a     Document Type: Article

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