传统的弧形角膜切开术(Arcuate keratotomy AK)需要依赖术者经验和技术，切口深度、长度以及对合度无法精确控制。飞秒激光辅助的弧形角膜切开术 ...

A panelist discusses how he successfully treated a complex case of a 72-year-old patient with previous radial keratotomy by ...

Astigmatic keratotomy eye surgery -- or AK -- and the more commonly performed limbal relaxing incision, or LRI, surgery are safe and effective. In recent years, AK has been largely replaced by ...

The surgery, called radial keratotomy, is performed on about 250,000 people a year, generally with good results. The procedure is not without risk, including blindness in a very small percentage ...

Pre-LASIK astigmatic keratotomy in these cases is more precise and reproducible with the application of laser technology as compared with manual corneal incisions. Yet another area beyond ...

Compared to manual limbal relaxing incisions performed in conventional phacoemulsification cataract surgery, nonpenetrating femtosecond laser arcuate keratotomy performed during femtosecond laser ...

This procedure was formerly one of the most common ways to correct nearsightedness. But with the rise of more effective procedures like LASEK, LASIK and PRK, it’s now considered outdated. People ...

These incisions are hallmarks of a type of eye surgery known as a radial keratotomy. Indeed, the patient confirmed she'd had this surgery 23 years earlier, according to the report, led by Dr.

The idea behind radial keratotomy — or RK — eye surgery in which a doctor makes multiple incisions in the cornea, was tantalizingly simple and appealing. “The purpose of the incisions is to ...

Brent Jesperson is a former Toronto dentist who gave up his profession in 2009 due to failing vision from radial keratotomy procedures he underwent in the early 1990s. He has filed a $12- million ...