Also called: Keratectomy, LASIK, LTK, PRK
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Overviews
- LASIK Eye Surgery: Alternative to Corrective Lenses (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
Latest News
- FDA Panel Urges Stronger Warnings for LASIK Surgery (04/26/2008, HealthDay)
Rehabilitation/Recovery
- Post-Surgical Expectations and Complications (Eye Surgery Education Council)
Specific Conditions
- First LASIK Device for Monovision (Food and Drug Administration)
- Photorefractive Keratectomy (PRK) (Cleveland Clinic Foundation) Spanish
- Vision Repair: LTK (Laser Thermokeratoplasty) (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Wavefront-Guided LASIK (American Academy of Ophthalmology)
Related Issues
- LASIK Surgery Screening Guidelines for Patients: Eligibility (Eye Surgery Education Council)
- LASIK Surgery: Expectations (Eye Surgery Education Council)
- Seeing Near and Far with Monovision (Cleveland Clinic Foundation)
- Selecting a Refractive Eye Surgeon (Eye Surgery Education Council)
- Tough Questions for Doctors (Eye Surgery Education Council)
Anatomy/Physiology
- Diagram of the Eye (National Eye Institute) Spanish
Financial Issues
- Cost for LASIK Procedures (Eye Surgery Education Council)
Clinical Trials
- ClinicalTrials.gov: Laser In Situ Keratomileusis (LASIK) (National Institutes of Health)
Journal Articles
References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Article: Laser in situ keratomileusis for spherical hyperopia and hyperopic astigmatism...
- Article: Correlations of long-term matrix metalloproteinase localization in human corneas after...
- Article: Comparison of corneal aberration changes after laser in situ keratomileusis...
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Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Eye Surgery Glossary (Eye Surgery Education Council)
- LASIK Eye Surgery Glossary (Food and Drug Administration)
Directories
- Eye Health Organizations Database (National Eye Institute)
Organizations
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National Institutes of Health
The primary NIH organization for research on “Laser Eye Surgery” is the National Eye Institute.
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Page last reviewed on April 15, 2008