Carnosidad (Pterigion) - Clinica Oftalmológica Vejarano Laser Vision - LaserVision

What is it?

Medically called "pterygium", is an abnormal growth of conjunctival tissue that grows into the cornea. It can cause burning, redness, itching, or feeling like a speck in the eye. Is slow growing them in some cases affect the vision.

Why does it develop?

The pterygium occurs mainly in people who spend long hours in the sun without sun protection glasses, also in people who work at night and have wakefulness or who  sufferers constant irritation of  eye for a long time without proper treatment. The genetic factor has much to do, independently of their environment.

How is corrected?

Regardless of the size or if they have already operated and came back out, we currently perform outpatient surgical technique and painless, which ensures that no flesh appears again.

This is an outpatient surgical procedure under local anesthesia (drops only), consists of the removal of the pterygium in its entirety with conjunctival autograft implantation with limbal cells, ensuring the non-recurrence of pterygium and a process postoperative without pain or discomfort because it requires only eye occlusion for 12 hours, with the difference to the old techniques where the operating pterygium without implementing any conjunctival autograft; coming back out the pterygium up to 40% of cases and in young people a higher percentage.