TY - CHAP
T1 - LASEK in high and low myopia
AU - Lohmann, Chris P.
AU - O’Brart, David
AU - Patmore, Ann
AU - Marshall, John
AU - von Mohrenfels, Christoph Winkler
AU - Gabler, Bernhard
AU - Herrmann, Wolfgang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2004 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business.
PY - 2004/1/1
Y1 - 2004/1/1
N2 - Refractive surgery is a constantly changing field with new technologies being developed and introduced routinely. Currently, excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and excimer laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) are the surgical procedures most commonly being used to treat myopia (1,2). PRK changes the corneal curvature by ablating part of Bowman’s layer and anterior corneal stromal tissue after removing the epithelium. In contrast, LASIK does not remove the epithelium, Bowman’s layer, or anterior stromal tissue but does remove deep stromal tissue after making a cut into the corneal stroma at 160 m using a microkeratome.
AB - Refractive surgery is a constantly changing field with new technologies being developed and introduced routinely. Currently, excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and excimer laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) are the surgical procedures most commonly being used to treat myopia (1,2). PRK changes the corneal curvature by ablating part of Bowman’s layer and anterior corneal stromal tissue after removing the epithelium. In contrast, LASIK does not remove the epithelium, Bowman’s layer, or anterior stromal tissue but does remove deep stromal tissue after making a cut into the corneal stroma at 160 m using a microkeratome.
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M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85056519990
SN - 9780824754341
SP - 147
EP - 187
BT - LASEK, PRK, and Excimer Laser Stromal Surface Ablation
PB - CRC Press
ER -