A Multicenter Retrospective Survey of Refractive Surgery in 78,248 Eyes

LASIK and phakic intraocular lens (IOL) implantation have received worldwide recognition as popular surgical approaches for the correction of refractive errors. To date, there have been several nationwide surveys of refractive surgery from Japan,1 –4 New Zealand,5–8 the United States,9,10 and Korea,11 and longitudinal data from the United States. After an outbreak of infectious keratitis occurred in a single center,12 and after attention arousing information was provided by the consumer agency of Japan, the number of refractive surgery pr ocedures performed in Japan was estimated to decrease
Source: Journal of Refractive Surgery - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Source Type: research