{"title":"Pterygium in a Libyan village.","authors":"M I Ben-Amer","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The prevalence of pterygium was estimated in a Libyan village. There seems to be an association between pterygium and cicatricial trachoma, poor housing conditions and Herbert's Pits in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":77361,"journal":{"name":"Revue internationale du trachome et de pathologie oculaire tropicale et subtropicale et de sante publique : organe de la Ligue contre le trachome avec la collaboration de l'International Organization against Trachoma et des organisation...","volume":"66 1-2","pages":"63-71"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1989-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Revue internationale du trachome et de pathologie oculaire tropicale et subtropicale et de sante publique : organe de la Ligue contre le trachome avec la collaboration de l'International Organization against Trachoma et des organisation...","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The prevalence of pterygium was estimated in a Libyan village. There seems to be an association between pterygium and cicatricial trachoma, poor housing conditions and Herbert's Pits in this population.