Recurrent Pterygium Surgery Using Pterygium Extended Removal Followed by Extended Conjunctival Transplant: Recurrence Rate and Cosmesis

Ophthalmology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1278-1286

  Hirst, Lawrence W ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND EYE INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA ULCER; DIPLOPIA; DIVERGENT STRABISMUS; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

CONJUNCTIVA; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; OPHTHALMOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE; SURGERY, PLASTIC; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS;

EID: 67649311453     PISSN: 01616420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2009.01.044     Document Type: Article

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