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Photoablation procedure
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| IN BRIEF |
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Refractive surgeries where tissue from the cornea is ablated with an excimer laser.
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| DISCUSSION |
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All laser eye surgeries are photoablation procedures. The point of each procedure, despite differences in preliminaries or techniques, is to reshape the corneal stroma by vaporising some of it with a laser.
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| examples |
| LASIK, LASEK, PRK, Epi-LASIK
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| RELATED ENTRIES |
| ablation
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| RELATED LASERMYEYE ARTICLES |
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Updated February 2005 |
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