AIMS To evaluate the efficiency of multimicroporous expanded polytetrafluoroethylene (e-PTFE) insertion in complicated multirecurrent pterygia. METHODS A total of 62 eyes from 62 patients with a multirecurrent pterygium associated with symblepharon or motility restriction-related binocular diplopia were recruited. All eyes underwent pterygia excision followed by application of 0.033% mitomyci...

Severe ocular diseases may result in partial or complete limbal cell deficiency. Besides conservative options, treatment options include conjunctival replacement procedures and limbal autografting. Limbal allografts are an option in patients with bilateral limbal cell deficiency. In many of these cases, a keratoprosthesis (KPro) is the last option to restore functional vision in patients with s...

Aim: To compare the recurrence rate of pterygium after excision with free conjunctival autograft versus amniotic membrane graft. Methods: The present study was a comparative, randomised prospective study. One hundred patients who presented with primary pterygium during the study period were randomly assigned to one of the two groupsone group (comprising of 50 patients) underwent pterygium excis...

Corneal epithelium is traditionally thought to be a self-sufficient, self-renewing tissue implying that its stem cells are located in its basal cell layer. Recent studies indicate however that corneal epithelial stem cells reside in the basal layer of peripheral cornea in the limbal zone, and that corneal and conjunctival epithelia represent distinct cell lineages. These ideas are supported by ...

A Pterygium is a characteristic triangular shaped fibrovascular growth of conjunctival and subconjunctival tissue, which invades the cornea between the epithelium and Bowman’s layer at its apex. Pterygia occur within the intrapalpebral space and are more common on the nasal rather than temporal side.They have three components: the cap, a grey avascular zone that precedes the head of the lesion ...