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Photographs showing surgical procedures in a 57-year-old woman in the representative case report.. Notes: (A) The bare sclera after pterygium excision and application of MMC. (B) Before making a large conjunctival epithelium flap (7 by 12 mm) from the superior area, excluding the limbal area (1-2 mm). (C) An amniotic membrane was placed on the ocular surface with 10-0 nylon sutures with the epithelial side down. (D) The superior conjunctiva had epithelialized 14.0 days after the surgery.. Abbreviation: MMC, mitomycin C.
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A 57-year-old woman underwent excision of a recurrent pterygium combined with application of MMC, double AMT, and a large conjunctival flap (Figure 4).
Preoperative and postoperative appearances in the representative case. Notes: (A) Before the surgery. (B) At 1.9 years after the surgery.
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So far, there has been no recurrence for 1.9 years (Figure 5).