Long-term comparison of fibrin tissue glue and vicryl suture in conjunctival autografting for pterygium surgery

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 97-103

  Huseyin Cagatay, Halil ^a   Gokce, Gokcen ^b   Ekinci, Metin ^a   Koban, Yaran ^a   Daraman, Ozlem ^a   Ceylan, Erdinç ^c  

^a KAFKAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Sarikamis Army District Hospital Turkey   (Turkey)

^c Erzurum Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Conjunctival autograft; Dehiscence; Fibrin glue; Pterygium; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN GLUE; POLYGLACTIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA DISEASE; CORNEAL EPITHELIOPATHY; CYST; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYGLACTIN SUTURE; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TENON CAPSULE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REFRACTOMETRY; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUTURING METHOD; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FIBRIN TISSUE ADHESIVE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POLYGLACTIN 910; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PTERYGIUM; RECURRENCE; REFRACTOMETRY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 84897019046     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/pgm.2014.01.2729     Document Type: Article

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