Cut and paste: A no suture, small incision approach to pterygium surgery

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 911-914

  Koranyi, G ^a   Seregard, S ^a   Kopp, E D ^a  

^a ST ERIK S EYE HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBABLE SUTURE; CHLORAMPHENICOL; FIBRIN GLUE; RIMEXOLONE; TETRACAINE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTACT LENS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA TRANSPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANK SUM TEST; SCLERA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ADULT; AGED; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PTERYGIUM; SUTURES; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ADHESIVES; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 3042790673     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2003.032854     Document Type: Article

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