WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — An alcohol-free variation of laser epithelial keratomileusis that uses microkeratome suction and a methylcellulose gel to create the epithelial sheet was effective in a small pilot ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . AMSTERDAM — LASEK is preferable to LASIK for lower levels of myopia, said Patrick Condon, MD, speaking here at ...

Jeffery Fischer, MD, of Willmar, Minn.-based Fischer Laser Eye Center, is one of the first surgeons in the Midwest to adopt the Customized Aspheric Treatment Zone LASEK, or CATz LASEK. The ...

Vision correction surgery patients will get just as good results from LASIK as from LASEK, a new study shows. Both surgeries use lasers to cut flaps in the cornea to correct its shape. LASEK ...

Jan. 13, 2004 -- There is no significant difference in outcomes between laser subepithelial keratomileusis (LASEK) and photorefractive keratotomy (PRK), according to the results of a randomized trial ...

A study led by a researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago compares the safety, effectiveness and reliability of the two most common types of laser eye surgery, laser epithelial ...

Vision-correction surgery patients will get just as good results from Lasik as from Lasek, a new study shows. Both surgeries use lasers to cut flaps in the cornea to correct its shape. Lasek ...

A study comparing the safety, effectiveness and reliability of LASIK and LASEK has found no clinically significant differences between the two types of laser eye surgery. The study, led by a ...