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

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.