Lasik [Hardcover]

Ioannis Pallikaris MD (Editor), Dimitrios Siganos MD (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1556423233 | ISBN-13: 978-1556423239 | Publication Date: November 11, 1997

...the innovator of LASIK, and 16 other world-renowned ophthalmic surgeons, address surgical plans, pre-op manage- ment techniques, and results...complications and their management are also presented.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: Slack Incorporated (November 11, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556423233
• ISBN-13: 978-1556423239
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,786,804 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Weak on pre-op considerations, December 18, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lasik (Hardcover)

As a surgeon performing refractive procedures for over 20 years, I was certainly impressed with the surgical techniques described by Dr. Pallikaris, which in fact borrow from much of my own research. He has certainly learned much, and I am impressed with his progress to date.

However, Dr. Pallikaris and his colleagues have left a rather large gap in their coverage of pre-operative considerations, such as the need to check for scotopic pupil size, pre-existing dry eye conditions, and the presence of exphorias and extropias. He has also not discussed the increasingly higher risks of the Lasik procedure in high myopic corrections (6 diopters and above).

It's a shame that both surgeons and patients end up learning more about pre-operative considerations from bulletin boards such as surgicaleyes and eyeknowwhy than from medical treatises such as this, often too late to prevent permanent optical distortions.