In recent years, increasing numbers of people have traded in their eyeglasses or contact lenses for a surgical procedure designed to correct nearsightedness. The surgery, called radial keratotomy, is ...

Purpose To compare the refractive and keratometric results of matched pairs of patients who underwent radial keratotomy (RK) at sea level and high altitude. Methods The results of 30 eyes that ...

Pre-LASIK astigmatic keratotomy in these cases is more precise and reproducible with the application of laser technology as compared with manual corneal incisions. Yet another area beyond refractive ...

Astigmatism, an optical defect that results in blurred vision secondary to an inability to sharply focus an object onto the human retina, often has to be dealt with by the clinician by way of ...

The idea behind radial keratotomy — or RK — eye surgery in which a doctor makes multiple incisions in the cornea, was tantalizingly simple and appealing. “The purpose of the incisions is to reduce the ...

Dr. Yair Karas says he’s performed radial keratotomy, or RK, on 10,000 patients — including police officers, firefighters, pilots, judges and clergy — during his 36-year career and says he has “no ...