Abstract

One of the kick-starter surgeries that is inducted among new trainee ophthalmologists is the excision of pterygium. Recent times have established that the gold standard technique to circumvent the hurdle of recurrence following the excision, is the usage of conjunctival limbal autografts (CLAU), harvested from the superior bulbar conjunctiva, and employing the patient’s physiological blood clot as an adhesive for the graft. The recipient site is measured, a box inscription is marked on the donor site, the CLAU is harvested, and then the graft is tucked into the pocket created following the pterygium excision. Owing to the simplicity and ample efficacy of this technique, the surgical outcomes of 200 such cases was studied among trainee ophthalmologists, retrospectively. The post-operative complication rate was found to be less than 1 percent and graft was retained in all the cases operated, thus implying the success of this technique as an induction surgery for budding surgeons.

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