Surgical excision of pterygium not only improves visual blur due to astigmatism, but it also improves the quality of vision by significantly changing the higher-order aberration profile.

A pterygium consists of a triangular, thickened mass of conjunctival and subconjunctival fibrovascular tissue with elastotic degeneration that crosses the limbus and invades the cornea, possibly ...

All patients in the study underwent pterygium excision with mitomycin C (MMC) 0.02% for 2 minutes with copious irrigation and conjunctival autografting with the use of fibrin glue.

ABC13 spoke with Tracy Kelly, who recently had pterygium removal surgery back in August. "I actually grew up on the beach in Florida. I had a fun childhood, but I paid for it years later," said Kelly.