Preoperative Bevacizumab Injection in Primary Pterygium in Tunisian Patients

"The surgical technique featured:~subconjunctival anesthetic (lidocaine 2%) injection 5 mm from limbus; excision of the pterygium, starting from its head, followed by pterygium body removal; exposition of a triangular-shaped bare scleral bed (3-4 mm) conjunctival autograft stitched limbus to limbus with 10/0 vicryl suture Any intraoperative complication was noted and was treated accordingly. All patients received dexamethasone + tobramycin eye drops postoperatively 4 times a day in the 1st week. The eye drops were tapered over 4 weeks.~Patients were examined 30 days before bevacizumab injection (D-30), before surgery (day 0: D0) and then at D7, M1, M3, and M6 after surgery."

"The surgical technique featured:~subconjunctival anesthetic (lidocaine 2%) injection 5 mm from limbus; excision of the pterygium, starting from its head, followed by pterygium body removal; exposition of a triangular-shaped bare scleral bed (3-4 mm) conjunctival autograft stitched limbus to limbus with 10/0 vicryl suture"