Historical Overview of the Clinical Development of “All in One” Femtosecond Refractive Laser Surgery
摘要
CornealFemtosecond refractive laser surgery resectional refractive procedures for the correction of myopia were pioneered by Barraquer and Ruiz in the 60s and 70s (Barraquer in Int Ophthalmol Clin 36:1–7, 1996). They removed a layer of intrastromal tissue utilizing a microkeratome and called this procedure “in situ keratomileusis”. However, the results of the procedure performed with mechanical devices were not entirely satisfactory (Ibrahim et al. in J Refract Surg 11:431–41, 1995; Wiegand et al. in Erste Ergebnisse. Ophthalmologe 92:402–9, 1995).