title: [Results of a multi-year use of combined laser-surgical treatment in tumors of the epibulbar and limbocorneal localizations].
abstract: Fifty-five patients (55 eyes) were followed up. The "Romashka-2" CO2-laser plant was used for treatment of epithelial and epibulbar tumors (41 patients, 41 eyes). Microsurgical interventions with subsequent lamellar or penetrating keratoplasty were made in 14 patients (14 eyes). The experimental group of patients was followed up from 3 to 10 years. Relapses were registered in 4 eyes (4 patients). The CO2-laser treatment had a number of advantages before surgery or cryotreatment in removing the epibulbar tumors without growth in the cornea. Ablasticity, minimal trauma to tissues and evaporation of diffusive neoplasms can be named among such advantages. In cases of growth of epibulbar tumors in the cornea, there were direct indications for keratoplasty with preliminary barrage of CO2 irradiation on the sides of the mucous tunic of epibulbar tumor. Tumors were surgically removed with subsequent lamellar or penetrating keratoplasty being made with respect to a tumor type. The perfection of surgical technique consists in that one transplant of a bigger diameter is used instead of a corneoscleral transplant.
authors.forename: V B
authors.initials: VB
authors.lastname: Georgieva
authors.forename: G G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Ziangirova
authors.forename: A A
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Kasparov
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001913:Bowen's Disease / Q000601:surgery; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000601:surgery*; D003315:Cornea; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007636:Keratoacanthoma / Q000601:surgery; D015948:Keratoplasty, Penetrating; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008545:Melanoma / Q000601:surgery*; D008866:Microsurgery; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011817:Rabbits; D013997:Time Factors