Clinical Analysis of Central Islands after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction (SMILE).

Conclusions: Central islands in SMILE, despite being a rare adverse event, can affect the safety of the procedure and are related to preoperative central steepness, not corrected by the spherical lenticule, which is clearly visible postoperatively. PMID: 33390036 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33390036?dopt=Abstract

Source: Current Eye Research - January 4, 2021 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Fernández J, García-Montesinos J, Martínez J, Piñero DP, Rodríguez-Vallejo M Tags: Curr Eye Res Source Type: research

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