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The use of antimetabolites as adjunctive therapy in the surgical treatment of pterygium

BACKGROUND: Pterygium is a proliferative disease with hyperplastic growth of corneoconjunctival fibro vascular tissue onto the cornea. Surgical therapy can be used to successfully manage pterygia; however, recurrence remains a problem. To reduce recurrence, surgical management may include autoconjun...

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Autores principales: Kareem, Alyaà Abood, Farhood, Qasim Kadhim, Alhammami, Hussein Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497463/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23152665
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S38388