LASIK is a treatment for the correction of myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. It has advantages over photorefractive keratectomy, such as less postoperative pain and more rapid recovery, but ...

LOS ANGELES — There are easy steps practitioners can take to prevent striae and slipped flaps during LASIK, as well as in managing striae. Macrostriae are microslips. Macrostriae are typically ...

We report a patient with thyroid eye disease (TED) in whom corneal striae were a sign of increased orbital pressure. A 48-year-old Oriental lady with TED was referred urgently to the orbital clinic.

Pregnancy as well as putting on lots of weight and diets that cause the weight to change rapidly, can cause stretch marks to form, because the skin is literally stretched by the sudden growth. What ...