Fig. 4.Pterygium of the left eye. (A) The medial conjunctival tissue extends laterally onto the cornea, affecting the patient’s vision. (B) The strontium eye applicator. Because pterygium is often considered a trivial problem, most datasets are small, and more evidence-based data are needed...
Surgical resection was performed for a nasal, rapidly progressive pterygium in her left eye associated with multi-layer amniotic membrane grafting. Examination: Re-epithelialization over the AMG was completed after 14 days. Best corrected visual acuity was improved after two months post operatively. No...
Slitlamp examination of the right eye was notable for nasal scleral necrosis and thinning with adjacent conjunctival injection and chemosis (Figure), mild corneal thinning nasally, shallowness of the anterior chamber and 3+ anterior chamber cell, inferior posterior synechiae, mild nuclear sclerosis of...
After surgery, the vascular loop, which is characteristic of normal limbal structure9, appeared on the nasal conjunctiva in 95.3% of eyes. The palisades of Vogt and the pinguecula were found postoperatively on the nasal limbus in 30.2% and 18.6% of cases, respectively. These structures are rar...
Thirty-three months before, the patient had a pterygium excised and mitomycin C, 0.04%, was instilled 3 times a day postoperatively for 10 days in the right eye. The same surgery was performed and the same drug was used for a course of 5 days in the left eye. Corneoscleral ...
Slitlamp examination of the right eye was notable for nasal scleral necrosis and thinning with adjacent conjunctival injection and chemosis ( Figure ), mild corneal thinning nasally, shallowness of the anterior chamber and 3+ anterior chamber cell, inferior posterior synechiae, mild nuclear sclerosis...
The right eye was more affected than the left eye, and nasal side was more involved than the temporal side. The recurrence among group A was 2 out of 40 with a recurrence rate of 5% and among group B was 3 out of 40 with a recurrence rate of 7.5%. Scleral thinning was seen in ...
The right eye was more affected than the left eye, and nasal side was more involved than the temporal side. The recurrence among group A was 2 out of 40 with a recurrence rate of 5% and among group B was 3 out of 40 with a recurrence rate of 7.5%. Scleral thinning was seen in ...
A 44-year-old male with bilateral lesions of the nasal bulbar conjunctiva extending over the cornea, consistent with pterygia, underwent surgical excision of the lesion in his left eye. Histopathologic examination revealed an exophytic lesion made up of proliferated goblet cells with benign cytologic ...
CASE REPORT A 47-year-old Malay woman with end stage renal failure on haemodialysis was found to have bilateral severe nasal primary pterygium, grade 4 in the right eye covering the pupillary axis and grade 3 in the left eye (Fig 1). In the right eye, areas of the cornea not directly...