Effects of excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy in limbal-conjunctival autograft transplantation for recurrent pterygium: a retrospective case control study

Effects of excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy in limbal-conjunctival autograft transplantation for recurrent pterygium: a retrospective case control study

Abstract Background Repeated surgery excisions could induce obvious irregular astigmatism in patients with recurrent pterygium. Our study is aimed to illustrate the effect of adjunct excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK) in limbal-conjunctival autograft transplantation on visual quality f...

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Main Authors: Di Chen, Xiaowei Liu, Qin Long, Zhonghai Wang, Ying Li
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-11-01
Series:BMC Ophthalmology
Subjects:
Recurrent pterygium
Limbal-conjunctival autograft transplantation
Excimer laser phototherapeutic keratectomy
Corneal topography
In vivo confocal microscopy
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12886-019-1248-1

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