Pterygium is a common type of eye polyp.
Ocular polyps are broadly defined as granulation tissue that grows in the eye, and can have a variety of causes, such as inflammation, trauma, or surgery. A fibrovascular granulomatous growth on the nasal or temporal side of the cornea caused by factors such as ultraviolet light exposure is called a pterygium.
Eye polyps or pterygia can be removed by surgical treatment. Generally speaking, when the size of the eye polyp is too large to affect the appearance or cause symptoms such as foreign body sensation in the eye, it should be surgically removed. Even if a pterygium does not cause a foreign body sensation in the eye, but grows into the clear corneal tissue more than 2 millimeters, it should also be surgically removed in order to avoid it from affecting vision.
When a patient develops a polyp or pterygium in the eye, he or she should go to the ophthalmology department of a hospital in a timely manner, and be treated by a doctor after a detailed examination and evaluation of his or her condition.