Clinical Study

Twelve-Year Outcomes of Pterygium Excision with Conjunctival Autograft versus Intraoperative Mitomycin C in Double-Head Pterygium Surgery

Table 3

Total Number of Recurrences in Conjunctival Autograft and Mitomycin C Groups.

ā€‰CAU MMC valuesa

Recurrence by 3 months ( in each group)01 (2.56%)0.314
Cumulative recurrence by 6 months ( in each group)1 (2.56%)5 (12.8%)0.089
Cumulative recurrence by 1 year () in each group1 (2.56%)6 (15.4%)0.048
Cumulative recurrence by 12 years () in each group2 (6.25%)9 (28.1%)0.020

CAU = conjunctival autograft; MMC = mitomycin C.
aChi-square test between CAU and MMC groups.