- ►nih.gov TY Wong, SC Loon, SM Saw - British Medical Journal, 2006 - bjo.bmj.com In the past decade, several large population based studies have provided new
information on the prevalence of visual impairment and the major age related eye
diseases in Asia. These include epidemiological studies from India, Taiwan, ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
AWP Foong, SM Saw, JL Loo, S Shen, SC … - Ophthalmic Epidemiology, 2007 - informahealthcare.com Purpose: Although there are approximately 200 million people of Malay ethnicity
living in Asia, the burden and risk factors of blinding eye diseases in this
ethnic group are unknown. This study summarizes the rationale and study ... Cited by 52 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►nih.gov SM Saw, R Husain, GM Gazzard, D Koh, D … - British Journal of Ophthalmology, 2003 - bjo.bmj.com Methods: A population based prevalence survey of adults 21 years or older
(n=989) was conducted in five rural villages and one provincial town in Sumatra,
Indonesia. One stage household cluster sampling procedure was employed ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 13 versions
CSH Tan, TH Lim, WP Koh, GC Liew, ST Hoh … - Eye, 2005 - nature.com Of the 550 inhabitants, 477 (86.7%) responded to the eye screening. The overall
prevalence rate of pterygium was 17.0%. Out of 211, 48 male (22.7%) and 33 out
of 266 female subjects (12.4%) had the disorder, with the gender difference ... Cited by 16 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
JS Paula, F Thorn, AAV Cruz - Eye, 2005 - nature.com A cross-sectional pterygium and cataract survey was performed in 624 adult
Indians of the Brazilian rain forest belonging to four different ethnic groups.
The Indians were classified according to their social behaviour in two ... Cited by 14 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
HC Kau, CC Tsai, WM Hsu, JH Liu, YH Wei - Eye, 2004 - nature.com Purpose Ultraviolet irradiation is known to cause oxidative DNA damage and is
thought to be a major factor implicated in the pathogenesis of pterygium. The
highly mutagenic 8-hydroxy-2'-deoxyguanosine, a marker for the evaluation ... Cited by 12 - Related articles - All 3 versions
- ►iovs.org N Kato, S Shimmura, T Kawakita, H Miyashita … - Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2007 - ARVO RESULTS. Histopathology showed aberrant fibrotic proliferation beneath the
pterygium epithelium, with epithelial processes extending into the stroma.
Transmission electron microscopy revealed the dissociation of epithelial ... Cited by 13 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
JK Lee, YS Song, HS Ha, JH Park, MK Kim, AJ … - Eye, 2006 - nature.com We studied 13 normal controls and 28 pterygium patients (primary (n=15),
recurrent (n=13)). Substance-P, vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), and
stem cell factor (SCF) were measured in plasma and tears using ELISA, and ... Cited by 8 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►prsjournal.net M Schaverien, M Saint-Cyr, G Arbique, SA … - reconstruction, 2008 - pdfs.journals.lww.com The thoracodorsal artery perforator flap is ver- satile and reliable in
experienced hands.1– 8 It can be harvested with minimal donor-site morbidity,
and a large vascular territory can be reliably perfused by a single ... Cited by 8 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
Y Tekelioglu, A Turk, AM Avunduk, E Yulug - Ophthalmologica, 2006 - content.karger.com Background/Aim: Pterygium is a relatively frequent ocular surface disease with
an unexplained etiopathogenesis. Our study was carried out with the aim to
identify the presence of inflammatory cells and mediators such as ... Cited by 5 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
