LASIK

This text provides a collection of clinical photos, with schematics of LASIK and lamellar surgery. The colour schematics describe the evolution of LASIK and modifications for lamellar surgical techniques, preoperative risk factors for LASIK, intraoperative LASIK complications, excimer lasers and microkeratomes, and wavefront technology. There is also a collection of normal and abnormal peroperative and postoperative topographies from both the Humphrey and Orbscan topographers. The text provides an explanation of the pictures as well as a discussion of the relavance of the topic to refractive surgery and LASIK.