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Nagi N. Assaad, MBBS, BSc(Med), MBiomedE; Minas T. Coroneo, MD, MS, MSc, FRACS, FRANZCO

Arch Ophthalmol. 2008;126(10):1460-1461.

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For reasons of efficacy and long-term safety, conjunctival or limbal conjunctival autograft surgery is generally regarded as the procedure of choice for the treatment of primary and recurrent pterygia.^1-2 Although surgical management of pterygium has traditionally relied on destructive procedures (excision and treatment with ß-radiation or chemotherapy), reconstructive approaches have come into use more recently. It is generally accepted that recurrence rates are higher for surgery of recurrent as compared with primary pterygium, but it remains uncertain as to why this should be the case. A contributing factor may relate to adjunctive measures used during the initial surgery, particularly if a conjunctival autograft is used in a subsequent procedure.

We describe 3 patients for whom graft failure occurred following previous ß-radiation or mitomycin used as adjunctive therapy in the initial surgical management for pterygium. This complication . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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