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Pterygium removal: knife excision versus modified evulsion technique
1Department of Ophthalmology, Christian Medical College, Punjab, India.
Ophthalmic Surgery
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
Seventy-four pterygia were removed by knife excision (KE), and 85 using a modified evulsion technique (MET); follow up ranged from 6 months to 5 years (mean, 14 months). The recurrence rate with MET was 5.88%; with KE, 20.27%. This difference is statistically significant (p = .05).