SURGICAL OUTCOMES FOLLOWING SUTURED AUTOGRAFTS AND SUTURE-LESS, GLUE-LESS AUTOGRAFTS IN PRIMARY PTERYGIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY

Management of primary pterygia using free conjunctival and limbal-conjunctival autografts without antimetabolites.

PURPOSE To report the incidence of recurrence after primary pterygium surgery using either a free conjunctival or limbal-conjunctival autograft without antimetabolites. METHODS One hundred eleven eyes of 90 patients underwent pterygium resection; a free conjunctival autograft was used in 88 surgeries and a free limbal-conjunctival autograft in 24; the latter technique was reserved for dark-sk...

111 Autografts and Allografts

Surgical outcomes for suture-less surgery in 366 impacted third molar patients.

PURPOSE The purpose of this study is to identify surgical outcomes in third molar surgery when no sutures are used for primary closure. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 1,280 third molars were removed from 366 patients in an outpatient setting using intravenous sedation and local anesthesia. A small V-shaped flap was raised in all cases and no sutures were placed over a 2-year period (2001 to ...

Adrenal Medulla Autografts

In 1959, experiments were begun to provide a more physiological and permanent pacemaker for chronic heart block by placing an autotransplant of either adrenal medulla or thyroid gland into the ventricular myocardium of dogs with complete heart block. The original concept was that the small area of myocardium surrounding the endocrine transplant would be stimulated by relatively high local conce...

A Comparison of Fibrin Glue with Sutures for Conjunctival Autografts in Pterygium Excision Surgery