Case report
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Oct 2026
Sutureless Epikeratophakia After Small Incision Lenticule Extraction: A Case Report to Correct Corneal Deformity.
PURPOSE To describe a novel therapeutic approach using transepithelial phototherapeutic keratectomy (t-PTK) combined with sutureless epikeratophakia to manage a severe corneal deformity and irregular hyperopic astigmatism caused by a femtosecond laser malfunction during keratorefractive lenticule extraction (KLEx). M...
Ivey Thornton, Jia-Wei Wu, Ronald R. Krueger et al.
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