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Surgically induced necrotizing scleritis after pterygium surgery
Nikhil S Gokhale1, Rohini Samant
1Gokhale Eye Hospital and Eyebank, Gokhale Road (S), Dadar West, Mumbai - 400 028, India. gokhlay@vsnl.com
Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
|February 27, 2007
We report a case of surgically induced necrotizing scleritis following pterygium surgery with the bare sclera technique, without the use of adjunctive irradiation or mitomycin C. The patient was successfully treated with systemic immunosuppression.
We report a case of surgically induced necrotizing scleritis following pterygium surgery with the bare sclera technique, without the use of adjunctive irradiation or mitomycin C. The patient was successfully treated with systemic immunosuppression.

