RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Histology of pterygium: an electron microscopic study.
JF British Journal of Ophthalmology
JO Br J Ophthalmol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
SP 604
OP 608
DO 10.1136/bjo.67.9.604
VO 67
IS 9
A1 M E Cameron
YR 1983
UL http://bjo.bmj.com/content/67/9/604.abstract
AB An electron microscopic study of the cap areas of several pterygia shows the presence of active fibroblasts in the natural tissue planes surrounding Bowman's layer. The hypothesis is advanced that the fibroblasts originate in the limbal connective tissue. They advance in the cornea above and below Bowman's membrane, destroying the latter and a variable amount of superficial corneal stroma.