When an Easy Thing Goes Wrong: Foreign Body Induced Granuloma-Associated Scleritis Following Pterygium Surgery

PURPOSE: To report a case of pterygium surgery with conjunctival autograft followed by focal necrotizing scleritis due to foreign body entrapment in the scleral bed. CASE REPORT/RESULTS: This is a case report of a 76-years-old male patient who underwent nasal pterygium surgery and developed focal ne...

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Published in:Case Rep Ophthalmol
Main Authors: Coelho, Pedro, Menezes, Carlos, Rodrigues, Pedro, Gonçalves, Rita, Maio, Tiago, Moreira, Jorge, Tenedório, Paula
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: S. Karger AG 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5422750/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28512421
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000464402
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