Pterygium grow from the white of the eye over the coloured part of the eye. Mostly they arise from the nose and grow outwards, but they can do the reverse, and grow from the outside in, and some people can have both of them. This lady in her 50’s had pterygia on both sides of …

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Radiation puts a hole in the wall of the eye This man received radiation treatment for a pterytgium 20 years earlier. Over time, the radiation caused the wall of the eye to melt, and a dark patch appeared where radiation was applied. This dark patch is actually the colour inside the eye, which has now …

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