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Fungal scleral keratitis and endophthalmitis following pterygium excision.
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Purpose. The study aims to compare the long-term outcome of conjunctival autograft (CAU) and mitomycin C (MMC) in double-head pterygium surgery. Methods. This is a follow-up study of a comparative interventional trial. Thirty-nine eyes of the 36 patients with double-head pterygium excision in the original study 12 years ago were recruited for clinical assessment. Seven out of the 36 patients we...
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AIMS To report the clinical and diagnostic findings of a patient with Acanthamoeba keratitis resistant to both polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB)-hexamidine and chlorhexidine-hexamidine treatment. METHODS Slit-lamp biomicroscopy, corneal cell scraping and histopathology were performed on a 39-year-old woman presenting with corneal ulcer in her left eye. RESULTS The patient was successfully ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: TNOA Journal of Ophthalmic Science and Research
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2589-4528
DOI: 10.4103/tjosr.tjosr_183_20