Contact lens corneal cutter

Details Contact lens corneal cutter Contact lens corneal cutter

1977-09-19

1980-06-03

Michell, Robert W.

Surgery

Truss

Pad

128749, 30276, 30293, A61B 1732

Patent

active

042056829

ABSTRACT:
A cutter to remove corneas from eyes which includes a body adapted to be placed and held on an eye and which has a rotatable carriage including a contact lens which rests against the surface of the cornea to restrict movement thereof and which has associated therewith a knife, the depth of cut of which is adjustable so that on a combination of rotation of the carriage and adjustment of depth of cut the cornea can be removed, the removed cornea having a truncated conical outer surface. The specification also describes a surgical method of removing and replacing corneas in eyes.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2249906 (1941-07-01), Longovia
patent: 2486737 (1949-08-01), Jayle
patent: 3074407 (1963-01-01), Moon et al.
American Journal of Ophthalmology, "A New Corneal Trephinc", D. M. Lieberman, M.D., May, 1976, vol. 81, No. 5.
American College Dictionary, p. 997.

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