Amniotic Membrane Grafts to Reduce Pterygium Recurrence
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Amniotic Membrane Grafts to Reduce Pterygium Recurrence
PURPOSE To demonstrate the long-term outcome of pterygium surgery with adjunctive amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) and intraoperative mitomycin C (MMC) in a large case series. METHODS Medical records were retrieved for this noncomparative retrospective study of all patients who had pterygium excision with adjunctive AMT and intraoperative MMC, from October 2010 to June 2016 with at lea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cornea
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0277-3740
DOI: 10.1097/ico.0000000000001407