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Arch Ophthalmol. 1999;117:1422-1423.

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Laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) is an effective procedure to treat a wide range of myopia.¹ The advantages of LASIK over photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) are rapid visual recovery, lower risk of corneal haze, greater regression of myopia, and less postoperative pain.^1-3 However, LASIK requires more skillful surgical technique and more instrumentation than PRK. Thus, inaccurate and inadequate procedures during LASIK have a higher potential of complications.

The complications of LASIK include severing of the corneal flap, epithelial ingrowth, flap wrinkling, corneal astigmatism, and corneal infection.^2-4 To our knowledge, only one case report by Pallikaris and Siganos⁵ has been published of corneal perforation following LASIK; it was a survey of their early 43 patients. Unfortunately, the treatment and the clinical course of the corneal perforation was not reported. We describe the treatment and clinical course of a patient with a LASIK-induced corneal perforation that affected the final visual acuity. We believe . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Corresponding author: Hitoshi Watanabe, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Osaka University Medical School, Room E7, 2-2 Yamadaoka, 565-0871 Suita, Japan.

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