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Impression cytology study of conjunctival epithelial phenotypes on the healing ocular surface after pterygium excision.
Cornea - 1 Apr 2001
Tseng S H, Chen Y T, Cheng H C, Huang F C, Lee S C, Chen F K
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PURPOSE: To compare the process of conjunctival epithelial regeneration after three types of pterygium excision procedures. METHODS: Thirty-eight patients (45 eyes) with primary pterygium were randomly assigned to a bare-sclera procedure (group 1, 15 eyes of 12 patients), bare-sclera with intraoperative mitomycin C (MMC 0.02% for 30 seconds; group 2, 15 eyes of 14 patients), or pterygium excision with...
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