Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pterygium is a degenerative condition of the ocular surface. The growth is known to cause issues such as visual ...

Pterygium surgery may be required to improve vision or cosmetic appearance or for symptomatic relief, and often it is challenging both intraoperatively and postoperatively. When pterygium and cataract ...

(HealthDay News) — After pterygium excision, the sequence of tissue restoration appears to start in the cornea and end in the limbal area, according to a study published online March 31 in Ophthalmic ...

Purpose Pterygium excision is often followed by recurrence that may be more severe than the initial lesion. This study evaluated the efficacy of conjunctival mini-autograft following surgical excision ...

The authors performed a retrospective review of all of their cases of surgery for recurrent pterygia from October 2005 to November 2008. All patients had previously undergone at least 1 pterygium ...

To compare the surgical results, complications, and recurrence rates of primary pterygium excision with conjunctival autografts (CA) vs platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) grafts. Although the PRF has been ...

A pterygium (pronounced te-ri-gi-um) is a fleshy pink growth on the white of the eye, which grows from the conjunctiva (the thin membrane that covers the white of the eye) onto the cornea (clear ...

A 46-year-old woman presents with a one-year history of a lesion developing in the corner of her right eye. She has noticed that the lesion is getting larger and growing towards her pupil. It is ...