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| Year : 1996 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 23-27 |
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Cyanoacrylate adhesive with conjunctival resection and superficial keratectomy in mooren's ulcer
Vinay Agrawal, Aashish Kumar, Virender Sangwan, Gullapalli N Rao
Sight Savers Cornea Training Centre, L.V.Prasad Eye Institute, Road No.2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500 034, India
Correspondence Address:
Vinay Agrawal
Sight Savers Cornea Training Centre, L.V.Prasad Eye Institute, Road No.2, Banjara Hills, Hyderabad 500 034
India
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PMID: 8828302 
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Seventeen eyes of thirteen patients with Mooren's ulcer were treated with a combination therapy of local and systemic steroids, conjunctival resection, superficial keratectomy and application of cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive. The pathology was classified as acute, subacute and chronic. Ulcers were graded based on the extent of corneal thinning, degree and extent of ulceration, and amount of inflammation. Fourteen eyes (82.4%) healed completely with formation of a vascularised scars, while three eyes (17.6%) failed to respond to treatment and either went into phthisis bulbi or healed with gross tissue distortion. Our study suggests an early intervention of this therapy with cyanoacrylate tissue adhesive application for effective control of Mooren's ulceration. |
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