Review on Current Status of Pterygium Surgery.

Yoon, Zeung Woo; Kwon, Dal Man; Song, Joon Kyoung; Kim, Suck Won

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1974;15(4):298-301.
Published online April 1, 1974.

Review on Current Status of Pterygium Surgery.

Zeung Woo Yoon, Dal Man Kwon, Joon Kyoung Song, Suck Won Kim

Department of Ophthalmfltgy, School of Meiiicine, Kyungpook, National University, Taegu, Korea.

익상편 수술현상에 대한 통계적 고찰

윤정우 , 권달만 , 송준경 , 김석원 ( Jeung Woo Yoon , Dal Man Kwon , Joon Kyoung Song , Suck Won Kim )

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.