Clinical prospective study of surgical treatment of pterygium

: Pterygium is a kind of degenerative lesion of the ocular conjunctiva and is thought to be hyperaemia of fibrovascular tissue onto the cornea caused by various factors. The most frequently used treatment for pterygium at present is surgery. Various surgical procedures and postoperative treatments for pterygium have been reported, however, the postoperative recurrence rates are somewhat high. Therefore, until now we have had no satisfactory clinical management of pterygium. The results of our method for surgical treatment of pterygium are given and compared with those described in many other reports. From this comparison, our clinical surgical treatment of pterygium, which is the so-called "bare sclera" technique, is evaluated to give the best management without serious complications and recurrences.