Moshirfar M, McCaughey MV, Fenzl CR, Santiago-Caban L, Kramer GD, Mamalis N. Clinical Ophthalmology. 2015;9:445–451.
On page 449, 1st paragraph of the Discussion section, the sentence “In 2011, the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare issued an order for discontinuation of the regional conjunctivectomy procedure,2 and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery issued a clinical alert in March 2014 recommending use of alternative procedures for treatment of conjunctival hyperemia.”3 should have been deleted.
On page 450, reference 3 should have been deleted and all corresponding citations in the main body of the text updated.
On page 450, 2nd paragraph of the Discussion section, the sentence “This specific population of postoperative patients remains at significant risk for potentially catastrophic postoperative complications several years following initial surgical intervention.” should have been rephrased as “The potential risk of this patient population is similar to most pterygium surgery even several years following initial surgical intervention.”
On page 450, 1st paragraph of the Conclusion section, the sentence “Cosmetic ocular whitening procedures such as regional conjunctivectomy and I-BRITE have exhibited exceedingly high rates of complications.” should have been rephrased as: “Cosmetic ocular whitening procedures such as regional conjunctivectomy and I-BRITE have exhibited overall similar rate of complication as to most other ocular surface reconstructive surgeries including pingueculectomy and excision of pterygium.”