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Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(10):1395.

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Dr. P. A. Callan read a paper on the operative treatment of high myopia. . . . At first the operation was limited to young persons with myopia of 16 D and over, and in sound eyes. Since then as low as 9 D has been operated on, and cases with a vision of 1/10 have not been deterrent factors. . . . Prior to the operation, it is not possible to estimate accurately what the resulting refraction will be after the removal of the lens. . . . 

The objection to any operation on a seeing eye that may lead to blindness is a valid one, but we must conclude that very many of these very high myopia cases are heavily handicapped in the struggle for a bare existence, while not a few are shut out from all means of livelihood for which their previous training fitted them. As regards the method of operating, he stated that the large flap . . . [Full Text of this Article]