Treatment of peripheral corneal ulcers by limbal conjunctivectomy
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Peripheral corneal ulcers can still pose difficult clinical problems despite therapeutic advances such as specific antimicrobial agents, collagenase inhibitors, heparin, ocular lubricants, biological adhesives, and soft contact lenses. This paper reports the healing of several types of progressive marginal ulcers after the excision and recession of adjacent limbal conjunctiva (limbal conjunctivectomy), in some cases after other modes of treatment had been unsuccessful.
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Treatment of peripheral corneal ulcers by limlial conjunctivectomy.
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