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Trial reportInternational ophthalmology2011

Sutureless amniotic membrane transplantation combined with narrow-strip conjunctival autograft for pterygium.

Hande Taylan Sekeroglu, Elif Erdem, Nese Cetin Dogan, Meltem Yagmur, Reha Ersoz, Ahmet Dogan

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Trial report in International ophthalmology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 16% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Hande Taylan SekerogluDepartment of Ophthalmology, Cukurova University, Balcali Hospital, 01130, Yuregir, Adana, Turkey. h_taylan@yahoo.com
Elif Erdem
Nese Cetin Dogan
Meltem Yagmur
Reha Ersoz
Ahmet Dogan
Cukurova University · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To study the efficacy and safety of sutureless amniotic membrane transplantation combined with narrow-strip conjunctival autograft and to investigate the clinical outcomes. Thirty eyes of 30 patients with primary pterygia were treated in this institutional study with excision followed by sutureless amniotic membrane transplantation combined with narrow-strip conjunctival autograft using fibrin glue tissue adhesive. The main outcome measures were the operating time for ocular surface reconstruction, the size of the pterygium and of the conjunctival autograft, postoperative complications, subjective complaints, and recurrences. The mean pterygium size was 3.12 ± 0.92 mm and the mean operating time was 4.58 ± 1.10 min. Twenty-nine patients (96.7%) had no complaints after first postoperative week. Twenty-eight (93.3%) patients had no recurrences after 1 year follow-up. The sutureless amniotic membrane transplantation combined with narrow-strip conjunctival autograft is an effective procedure with low rate of recurrence. This technique can be considered as a preferred grafting procedure for primary pterygium but further randomized controlled studies including larger populations are needed.

Indexed as

AdultAgedAmnionConjunctivaFemaleFibrin Tissue AdhesiveHumansMaleMiddle AgedPostoperative ComplicationsPterygiumSecondary PreventionSuturesTissue AdhesivesTransplantation, AutologousTreatment OutcomeFibrin Tissue AdhesiveTissue Adhesives

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PMID22146880
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