Method and apparatus for performing a keratomileusis or the like

Details Method and apparatus for performing a keratomileusis or the like Method and apparatus for performing a keratomileusis or the like

1988-11-30

1990-02-27

Cohen, Lee S.

Surgery

Instruments

Light application

A61N 506

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049036955

ABSTRACT:
A conventional keratomileusis procedure is modified to the extent that a controlled tissue-ablating laser radiation is applied solely to the freshly cut part of the cornea that is left after severing the lenticle, the radiation being so controlled and characterized as to effect a volumetric removal of exclusively stromal tissue that, upon replacement of the lenticle over the thus-sculptured remainder of the cornea, a new and optically corrected curvature results.

REFERENCES:
patent: 4729372 (1988-03-01), L'Esperance, Jr.
"The Potential of an Infrared Hydrogen Fluoride (HF) Laser for Corneal Surgery", by Seiler et al, Lasers in Ophthal. vol. 1 No. 1 (1986) pp. 44-60.
"Advanced Technique in Ophthalmic Microsurgery", by Girard; The C. V. Mosby Company; St. Louis 1981 pp. 159-170.

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