BACKGROUND Treatment of recurrent pterygium associated with symblepharon usually involves the use of tissue grafting and/or the intraoperative application of mitomycin C (MMC). For the graft, a conjunctival/limbal autograft and/or amniotic membrane may be used. This generally requires extra technical skills and assistance, an increase in the cost and duration of surgery, and a more extensive an...

Five leaking filtering blebs, occurring between 10 months and 21 years after trabeculectomy, were closed with cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive. Filtering bleb integrity was preserved in four cases, so that additional microsurgery was avoided. The only problem associated with use of tissue adhesive was the development of corneal abrasions in three cases. Although it is an accepted treatment for the...

BACKGROUND/AIMS During the healing of corneal epithelial wounds with limbal involvement, conjunctival epithelium often migrates across the denuded limbus to cover the corneal surface. It is believed that, over a period of time, conjunctival epithelium covering the cornea assumes characteristics of corneal epithelium by a process referred to as conjunctival transdifferentiation. The purpose of t...

= Abstract = Review of 8 cases of heterotopic lacrimal gland tissue in epibulbar conjunctival region disclosed frequent mixture of pilosebaceous structure, adipose tissue, smooth muscle. etc. The term complex choristoma appears appropriate to designate a mixture of this variety, although each element can be predominant in a single lesion. Complex choristoma containing lacrimal gland was commonl...

Of various techniques of pteryium surgeries to prevent recurrence, conjunctival limbal auto graft has been the most successful adjuvant since studies have shown role stem cell deficiency (LSCD) as pathology pterygium. The common method auto-graft fixation post pterygium excision is suturing; with drawbacks prolonged operating time and postoperative discomfort. Replacing sutures tissue adhesives...

purpose : to report clinical and pathologic result of a young patient with isolated cavernous hemangioma of conjunctiva case report : a 26-year-old man who presented with smooth, red, lobular surface mass was seen in the bulbar conjunctiva in temporal side with engorged episcleral and conjunctival vessels around the lesion. excisional biopsy was performed. pathologist confirmed the diagnosis of...

introduction to evaluate the expression patterns of cytokeratin (k) 12, 13, and 19 in normal epithelium of the human ocular surface to determine whether k13 could be used as a marker for conjunctival epithelium. methods: total rna was isolated from the human conjunctiva and central cornea. those transcripts that had threefolds or higher expression levels in the conjunctiva than the cornea were ...