Review on Current Status of Pterygium Surgery

ABSTRACT

Many surgical procedures for pterygium and the postoperative cares for the prevention of recurrences have been employed, but no satisfactory methods are available yet. The authors analyzed the surgical procedures and postoperative cares doing ordinarily by 64 ophthalmologists who replied the questionnaire sent by us to 135 all regbteted Korean Ophthalmologists. The results are as follows; 1. The most preferred surgical procedure utilized was the bare scleral method. 2. 90Sr. irradiation was done, in the majority, to prevent the postoperative recurrence then long time instillations of mitomycin-c and steroid were utilized in the remainder. 3. The most utilized dosage of total 90Sr. irradiation were 4,000-6,000 rep. and 2 or 3 fractionated irradiations were performed in the majority. 4. The recurrence rates were 4.3% at 90Sr. irradiation, 5.2% at mitomycin-c instillation and 4.7% in average.