{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,26]],"date-time":"2026-10-26T12:39:55Z","timestamp":1793018395375,"version":"4.5.0"},"reference-count":41,"publisher":"Elsevier BV","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,1]],"date-time":"2026-06-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1780272000000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/tdm\/userlicense\/1.0\/"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,6,1]],"date-time":"2026-06-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1780272000000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/legal\/tdmrep-license"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,1]],"date-time":"2026-04-01T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1775001600000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/"}],"funder":[{"DOI":"10.13039\/501100004835","name":"Zhejiang University","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","id":[{"id":"10.13039\/501100004835","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]},{"DOI":"10.13039\/100007928","name":"Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","id":[{"id":"10.13039\/100007928","id-type":"DOI","asserted-by":"publisher"}]}],"content-domain":{"domain":["clinicalkey.com","clinicalkey.com.au","clinicalkey.es","clinicalkey.fr","clinicalkey.jp","elsevier.com","sciencedirect.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,6]]},"DOI":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,4,2]],"date-time":"2026-04-02T13:15:33Z","timestamp":1775135733000},"page":"105459","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/elsevier_cm_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"special_numbering":"C","title":["Correlations of pterygial blood flow with corneal refractive properties and higher-order aberrations: A cross-sectional OCTA study"],"prefix":"10.1016","volume":"59","author":[{"given":"Jianqin","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yanghong","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Bingzhen","family":"Gou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jianyong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7311-0188","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hongguang","family":"Cui","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"78","reference":[{"key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0001","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.exer.2024.109900","article-title":"Risk factors for pterygium: latest research progress on major pathogenesis","volume":"243","author":"Ding","year":"2024","journal-title":"Exp. Eye Res."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0002","first-page":"837","article-title":"Angiogenesis in the pathogenesis of pterygium","volume":"52","author":"Livezeanu","year":"2011","journal-title":"Rom. J. Morphol. Embryol."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0003","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"350","DOI":"10.1136\/bjo.85.3.350","article-title":"Vascular patterns in pterygium and conjunctival autografting: a pilot study using indocyanine green anterior segment angiography","volume":"85","author":"Chan","year":"2001","journal-title":"Br. J. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"10","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0004","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1235","DOI":"10.1001\/archopht.1997.01100160405001","article-title":"Effect of pterygium morphology on pterygium recurrence in a controlled trial comparing conjunctival autografting with bare sclera excision","volume":"115","author":"Tan","year":"1997","journal-title":"Arch. Ophthalmol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0005","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"128","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jtos.2022.08.002","article-title":"5-Fluorouracil in primary, impending recurrent and recurrent pterygium: systematic review of the efficacy and safety of a surgical adjuvant and intralesional antimetabolite","volume":"26","author":"Lee","year":"2022","journal-title":"Ocul. Surf."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0006","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"529","DOI":"10.1016\/S0161-6420(94)31303-0","article-title":"Adverse reactions due to indocyanine green","volume":"101","author":"Hope-Ross","year":"1994","journal-title":"Ophthalmology."},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0007","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"237","DOI":"10.1007\/s00417-017-3896-2","article-title":"Optical coherence tomography angiography: a review of current and future clinical applications","volume":"256","author":"Ang","year":"2018","journal-title":"Graefes. Arch. Clin. Exp. Ophthalmol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0008","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.preteyeres.2017.11.003","article-title":"Optical coherence tomography angiography","volume":"64","author":"Spaide","year":"2018","journal-title":"Prog. Retin. Eye Res."},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0009","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"8","DOI":"10.1167\/iovs.62.1.8","article-title":"Assessment of choroidal vascularity and choriocapillaris blood perfusion in anisomyopic adults by SS-OCT\/OCTA","volume":"62","author":"Wu","year":"2021","journal-title":"Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci."},{"issue":"7","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0010","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7","DOI":"10.1167\/iovs.64.7.7","article-title":"Choroidal circulation in 8- to 30-year-old Chinese, measured by SS-OCT\/OCTA: relations to age, axial length, and Choroidal thickness","volume":"64","author":"Wang","year":"2023","journal-title":"Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci."},{"issue":"9","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0011","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1740","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ophtha.2015.05.017","article-title":"Optical coherence tomography angiography for anterior segment vasculature imaging","volume":"122","author":"Ang","year":"2015","journal-title":"Ophthalmology."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0012","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajo.2018.08.009","article-title":"Conjunctival and intrascleral vasculatures assessed using anterior segment optical coherence tomography angiography in normal eyes","volume":"196","author":"Akagi","year":"2018","journal-title":"Am. J. Ophthalmol."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0013","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"86","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jtos.2021.07.009","article-title":"Anterior segment optical coherence tomography angiography in the assessment of ocular surface lesions","volume":"22","author":"Binotti","year":"2021","journal-title":"Ocul. Surf."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0014","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"165","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ajo.2019.04.021","article-title":"Anterior segment optical coherence tomographic angiography assessment of acute chemical injury","volume":"205","author":"Fung","year":"2019","journal-title":"Am. J. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0015","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"99","DOI":"10.1097\/ICO.0000000000002114","article-title":"Optical coherence tomography angiography in pinguecula and pterygium","volume":"39","author":"Zhao","year":"2020","journal-title":"Cornea"},{"key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0016","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","DOI":"10.1016\/j.mvr.2024.104734","article-title":"Assessment of conjunctival autograft reperfusion after pterygium surgery by optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A)","volume":"157","author":"Masoumi","year":"2025","journal-title":"Microvasc. Res."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0017","first-page":"311","article-title":"Ischemic tissue injury and progenitor cell tropism: significant contributors to the pathogenesis of pterygium","volume":"30","author":"Kim","year":"2015","journal-title":"Histol. Histopathol."},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0018","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"502","DOI":"10.1038\/modpathol.3880555","article-title":"Prognostic significance of fibrotic focus in invasive ductal carcinoma of the breast: a prospective observational study","volume":"15","author":"Hasebe","year":"2002","journal-title":"Mod. Pathol."},{"issue":"6","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0019","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"517","DOI":"10.1007\/s004280050283","article-title":"The fibrotic focus in advanced colorectal carcinoma: a hitherto unrecognized histological predictor for liver metastasis","volume":"433","author":"Nishimura","year":"1998","journal-title":"Virchows Arch."},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0020","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"440","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1365-2559.2007.02761.x","article-title":"A fibrotic focus is a prognostic factor and a surrogate marker for hypoxia and (lymph)angiogenesis in breast cancer: review of the literature and proposal on the criteria of evaluation","volume":"51","author":"Van den Eynden","year":"2007","journal-title":"Histopathology"},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0021","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"530","DOI":"10.1136\/bjophthalmol-2011-300550","article-title":"In vivo confocal microscopic features of normal limbus","volume":"96","author":"Miri","year":"2012","journal-title":"Br. J. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"11","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0022","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"734","DOI":"10.1136\/bjo.77.11.734","article-title":"Pterygium as an early indicator of ultraviolet insolation: a hypothesis","volume":"77","author":"Coroneo","year":"1993","journal-title":"Br. J. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0023","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"324","DOI":"10.1111\/cxo.12147","article-title":"Sex hormones and the dry eye","volume":"97","author":"Truong","year":"2014","journal-title":"Clin. Exp. Optom."},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0024","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"162","DOI":"10.3109\/02713683.2014.966847","article-title":"Sex-steroid imbalance in females and dry eye","volume":"40","author":"Versura","year":"2015","journal-title":"Curr. Eye Res."},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0025","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1181","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ophtha.2018.01.025","article-title":"Influence of meibomian gland dysfunction and friction-related disease on the severity of dry eye","volume":"125","author":"Vu","year":"2018","journal-title":"Ophthalmology."},{"key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0026","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"140","DOI":"10.1016\/j.preteyeres.2016.04.004","article-title":"Lid wiper epitheliopathy","volume":"53","author":"Efron","year":"2016","journal-title":"Prog. Retin. Eye Res."},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0027","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"331","DOI":"10.1016\/j.survophthal.2021.05.009","article-title":"Superior limbic keratoconjunctivitis: a comprehensive review","volume":"67","author":"Lahoti","year":"2022","journal-title":"Surv. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0028","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1568","DOI":"10.1016\/S0161-6420(00)00219-0","article-title":"Effects of pterygium on corneal spherical power and astigmatism","volume":"107","author":"Tomidokoro","year":"2000","journal-title":"Ophthalmology."},{"issue":"4","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0029","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"434","DOI":"10.1097\/ICO.0b013e3181656448","article-title":"Analysis of pterygium size and induced corneal astigmatism","volume":"27","author":"Mohammad-Salih","year":"2008","journal-title":"Cornea"},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0030","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"200","DOI":"10.1097\/00003226-199007000-00004","article-title":"Conjunctival pterygia. Mechanism of corneal topographic changes","volume":"9","author":"Oldenburg","year":"1990","journal-title":"Cornea"},{"issue":"5","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0031","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"660","DOI":"10.1136\/bjophthalmol-2016-308685","article-title":"Morphometric characterisation of pterygium associated with corneal stromal scarring using high-resolution anterior segment optical coherence tomography","volume":"101","author":"Gasser","year":"2017","journal-title":"Br. J. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0032","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7328","DOI":"10.1038\/s41598-023-34466-4","article-title":"Effect of pterygium on corneal astigmatism, irregularity and higher-order aberrations: a comparative study with normal fellow eyes","volume":"13","author":"Yoon","year":"2023","journal-title":"Sci. Rep."},{"issue":"2","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0033","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"135","DOI":"10.1016\/j.ohc.2004.02.008","article-title":"Correlation of aberrations with visual acuity and symptoms","volume":"17","author":"Chalita","year":"2004","journal-title":"Ophthalmol. Clin. North Am."},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0034","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"86","DOI":"10.1111\/cxo.12943","article-title":"Peripheral refraction and higher order aberrations","volume":"103","author":"Romashchenko","year":"2020","journal-title":"Clin. Exp. Optom."},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0035","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1186\/s40662-021-00274-y","article-title":"Repeatability and reproducibility of corneal higher-order aberrations measurements after small incision lenticule extraction using the Scheimpflug-Placido topographer","volume":"9","author":"Ning","year":"2022","journal-title":"Eye Vis (L.)"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0036","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"98","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jtos.2019.10.005","article-title":"Corneal higher-order aberrations in eyes with chronic ocular graft-versus-host disease","volume":"18","author":"Shimizu","year":"2020","journal-title":"Ocul. Surf."},{"issue":"8","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0037","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1031","DOI":"10.1136\/bjo.2006.110874","article-title":"Night vision disturbances after successful LASIK surgery","volume":"91","author":"Villa","year":"2007","journal-title":"Br. J. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"11","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0038","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1232","DOI":"10.1097\/ICO.0b013e3181d3d689","article-title":"Effects of pterygium on ocular aberrations","volume":"29","author":"Zare","year":"2010","journal-title":"Cornea"},{"issue":"1","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0039","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7","DOI":"10.1186\/s12886-023-03270-z","article-title":"The effect of pterygium on front and back corneal astigmatism and aberrations in natural-light and low-light conditions","volume":"24","author":"Xu","year":"2024","journal-title":"BMC. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"3","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0040","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"269","DOI":"10.1136\/bjo.2004.050633","article-title":"Characterisation of myofibroblasts in fibrovascular tissues of primary and recurrent pterygia","volume":"89","author":"Touhami","year":"2005","journal-title":"Br. J. Ophthalmol."},{"issue":"7","key":"10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459_bib0041","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"913","DOI":"10.3109\/02713683.2015.1080281","article-title":"Influence of pterygium on corneal biomechanical properties","volume":"41","author":"\u00d6ner","year":"2016","journal-title":"Curr. Eye Res."}],"container-title":["Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S1572100026001262?httpAccept=text\/xml","content-type":"text\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/api.elsevier.com\/content\/article\/PII:S1572100026001262?httpAccept=text\/plain","content-type":"text\/plain","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,26]],"date-time":"2026-10-26T12:25:01Z","timestamp":1793017501000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S1572100026001262"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,6]]},"references-count":41,"alternative-id":["S1572100026001262"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459","relation":{},"ISSN":["1572-1000"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1572-1000","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,6]]},"assertion":[{"value":"Elsevier","name":"publisher","label":"This article is maintained by"},{"value":"Correlations of pterygial blood flow with corneal refractive properties and higher-order aberrations: A cross-sectional OCTA study","name":"articletitle","label":"Article Title"},{"value":"Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy","name":"journaltitle","label":"Journal Title"},{"value":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.pdpdt.2026.105459","name":"articlelink","label":"CrossRef DOI link to publisher maintained version"},{"value":"article","name":"content_type","label":"Content Type"},{"value":"\u00a9 2026 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.","name":"copyright","label":"Copyright"}],"article-number":"105459"}}