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Past, Present and Future of Excimer and Femtolaser Application to the Cornea

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Lasers (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) have a long tradition in ophthalmic diagnostics and treatment. Photocoagulation was first introduced by Prof. Gerd Meyer-Schwickerath in the eye clinic of the University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE) in 1949 [1, 2]. This was the first application worldwide in the eye transforming sunlight into a therapeutic radiation beam. However since the weather is not very stable in Hamburg the availability of the laser-photocoagulation source (sunlight) was neither stable nor reliable. There is a steady alternating pendulum from new therapeutic to refractive laser applications throughout the evolutional process of corneal laser surgery. First excimer PTK was followed by introduction of PRK. Then lamellar refractive surgery (LASIK) was followed by new lamellar therapeutic developments such as therapeutic lamellar transplant procedures for Keratokonus and endothelial failure. And latest small incision lenticular extraction is followd by first studies introducing therapeutic stromal lenticular implantation procedure for corneal thinning disorders.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Martinistr. 52, 20246, Hamburg, Germany

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    Stephan J. Linke MD, PhD

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Linke, S.J. (2016). Past, Present and Future of Excimer and Femtolaser Application to the Cornea. In: Linke, S., Katz, T. (eds) Complications in Corneal Laser Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41496-6_1

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