Refractive Lens Surgery

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Fine, I. Howard (Editor), Packer, Mark (Editor), Hoffman, Richard. S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ophthalmology.; Medicine & Public Health.

When Sir Harold Ridley implanted the first intraocular lens in 1949, he irrevocably coupled lens extraction with refractive surgery. The purpose of the implant remains essentially refractive to this day. However, we are now witnessing an unprecedented flowering of technology for pseudophakia. Elimin...