Comparison of three methods for the treatment of pterygium: Amniotic membrane graft, conjunctival autograft and conjunctival autograft plus mitomycin C

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Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 5-13

  Katircioǧlu, Yasemin Arslan ^a,b   Altiparmak, Ugur Emrah ^a   Duman, Sunay ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Turan Guneş Bulvari ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Amniotic membrane; Conjunctival autografts; Mitomycin C; Pterygium surgery

Indexed keywords

MITOMYCIN C;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNION; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; FIBROSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW DRUG DOSE; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PTERYGIUM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TOPICAL TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMNION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTIBIOTICS, ANTINEOPLASTIC; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONJUNCTIVA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITOMYCIN; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34249061499     PISSN: 01676830     EISSN: 17445108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01676830600972724     Document Type: Article

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