Evaluation of adhesive N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate for recurrent pterygium

ABSTRACT

The study was carried on 40 surgeries which were done for recurrent pterygium. The following different techniques of N-butyle-2-cyanoacrylate application were used a. Limbo-scleral for 15 eyes b. scleral application for 15 eyes. C. No adhesive substance was used in the last 10 eyes as a control. The recurrence rate was high in the cases in which we did not use the adhesive substance. With the adhesive substance the incidence of recurrence was less with the cases of multiple application technique and for 14 days duration