Guoji Yanke Zazhi (Dec 2013)

Comparison of pain after pterygium surgery with retrograde rip method and excision method

  • Yi-Tian Zhang,
  • Jiang Guo,
  • Jing Sima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3980/j.issn.1672-5123.2013.12.54
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 12
pp. 2538 – 2539

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AIM: To compare the pain after pterygium surgery with retrograde rip method and excision method.METHODS: Totally, 160 pterygium patients(160 eyes)accepted surgery: 80 cases(80 eyes)underwent retrograde rip method and 80 cases(80 eyes)underwent excision method. The pain experience was graded 24h after the operation, difference of which between two groups was evaluated.RESULTS: The number of cases suffering 0, 1, 2, 3 degree of pain was 4, 45, 23, 8 in retrograde rip group and 1, 30, 33, 16 in excision group respectively, with differences of statistical significance among them(Z=-2.995, P=0.03).CONCLUSION: The pain degree experienced in retrograde rip method is lower than that in traditional excision method. Retrograde rip method has unique advantage in treating pterygium in cephalosome tissue.

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