AIM:To compare the recurrent rate in 1 year of three different surgical treatments for pterygium.METHODS:The patients with pterygium underwent three different surgical treatments after 2008 were analyzed,the recurrent rates were compared,the Chi-square test was used in this study.RESULTS:There was obvious difference among three different surgical treatments.The recurrence rate was high in pure pterygial resection.but in either pterygium excision with autologous corneal stem cell transplantation or pterygium excision with biological amniotic membrane transplantation surgery,the recurrent rate was low,and these two operations were not statistically significant.CONCLUSION:Pterygium excision with autologous corneal stem cell transplantation or pterygium excision with biological treatment of amniotic membrane trans-plantation is an ideal surgery,the recurrent rate is low especially in pterygium excision with autologous corneal stem cell transplantation.