Conjunctival autograft transplantation for recurrent pterygia
- Author:
Chau Thi Hoang
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
pterygia
- MeSH:
Pterygium;
Transplantation, Autologous
- From:Journal of Vietnamese Medicine
2001;263(9):9-13
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The pterygia is an ocular diseases with a multifactorial etiology and is found more commonly in tropical areas such as Vietnam. The surgical treatment of pterygia is still a big challenge to opthalmologists due to high rate of its recurrent. In this study we performed the conjunctival autograft transplantation (CAT) on 66 patients (81 eyes) of recurrent pterygia with dramatically success: 79 eyes (97.5%) have excellent and good results. There are 2 eyes (2.5%) have light proliferation of fibrovascular tissue in the border of graft. This study showed that CAT is good procedure for preventation of recurrent pterygium and should be applied popularly in the departments of ophthalmology of the provinces.
