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. 2024 Mar 7:4:1367258.
doi: 10.3389/fopht.2024.1367258. eCollection 2024.

Topography-guided excimer laser ablation in refractive surgery

Şefik Can İpek  1 , Canan Asli Utine  2   3   4
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Topography-guided excimer laser ablation in refractive surgery

Şefik Can İpek et al. Front Ophthalmol (Lausanne). .
No abstract available

Keywords: ablation techniques; corneal topography; excimer; keratoconus; laser therapy; refractive surgery.

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The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The author(s) declared that they were an editorial board member of Frontiers, at the time of submission. This had no impact on the peer review process and the final decision.

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Figure 1
The final treatment plan included a 46-micron ablation for corneal regularisation with partial cylindrical correction. The plan was to flatten with myopic ablation over the cone and steepen with hyperopic ablation in the mid periphery.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Day 45 patient appearance with asymmetric bow tie-like topography on the preoperative axial map after combined topo-G and CXL treatment. The effect of ablation can be seen in the difference map.
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