A remarkable case of a scleral melting reaction in association with conjunctival rhinosporidiosis is presented and its surgical treatment with a scleral graft described.

INTRODUCTION The mainstay of treatment for pterygium is surgical excision with or without a graft. The most common problem with this intervention is recurrence, for which a multitude of factors have been described. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the recurrence rate of pterygium in conjunctival autologous graft transplantation after its excision in people living in a hilly region of Nepal Materials and...

Objective Compare the thickness of conjunctival autografts in pterygium surgery using Moscovici dissection technique with manual and assess difficulty techniques. Methods In this randomized clinical trial, 30 eyes patients undergoing were divided into Dissection Technique Group Manual Group. The treated at Hospital Oftalmológico Visão Laser (Santos, São Paulo, Brazil). Optical coherence tomogra...

All across the world, glaucomatologists are adopting broader use of glaucoma drainage implants even as a primary surgical modality. To avoid tube exposure, which may predispose the eye to endophthalmitis, the implanted tube must be covered by a patch graft. However, these patch grafts also carry a high rate of progressive thinning and erosion, which is believed to result from the lack of cellul...

AIMS To compare the degree of conjunctival autograft inflammation, subconjunctival haemorrhage (SCH) and graft stability following the use of sutures or fibrin glue (FG) during pterygium surgery. METHODS Prospective, observer masked, clinical trial. 40 eyes of 40 patients undergoing primary pterygium surgery with conjunctival autograft were allocated into two groups. Group 1 (n = 20) had FG (...

VARIOUS mucosal and skin materials have been used in plastic operations on the conjunctiva, and the mucosa of the mouth and lips have been found most suitable. Apart from these materials, the Thiersch graft, part of the peritoneal membrane, the rectum, the preputium, and the labia minora have also been used for small conjunctival defects. Sorsby and Symons (1946) found amniotic membrane suitabl...

recalcitrant gingival erythematous lichen planus lesions comprise a considerable therapeutic problem. this case of chronic desquamative gingivitis in a 25-year-old woman with erosive oral lichen planus was treated with topical and systemic corticosteroid administration, followed by placement of a free gingival graft on right upper quadrant. although recurrence of the lesions was observed follow...

BACKGROUND A pterygium is a fibro-vascular, wing shaped encroachment of the conjunctiva on to the cornea. The prevalence rates ranges from 0.7 to 31% among different populations and also influenced by age, race, and exposure to solar radiations. Ultraviolet light-induced damage to the limbal stem cell barrier with subsequent conjunctivalisation of the cornea is the currently accepted aetiology ...