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Comparative study of intraoperative mitomycin C and β irradiation in pterygium surgery
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Editor,—We read with interest the study that compared intraoperative mitomycin C with β irradiation in primary pterygium surgery. The authors rightly commented that long term complications of β irradiation, such as scleral necrosis, may arise more than 10 years after the irradiation.Longer follow ups are necessary to reveal such complications.
We performed primary pterygium excision with intraoperative β irradiation in one eye of six patients between 1988 and 1990. A dose …