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A Case of Severe Haze After PRK in a Patient Treated by a 6th-Generation Excimer Laser

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It is important to be aware of the risk of corneal haze development after PRK even with a new generation of excimer laser.

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  1. Department of Refractive Surgery, Vissum Corporación Oftalmológica, Alicante, Spain

    Jorge L. Alió MD, PhD & Alessandro Abbouda MD

  2. Department of Ophthalmology-Policlinico Umberto I of Rome, University of Rome “Sapienza”, Viale del Policlinico, 155, 00186, Roma, Italy

    Alessandro Abbouda MD

  3. R&D Department, Vissum Corporación Oftalmológica, 03016, Alicante, Spain

    Alessandro Abbouda MD

  4. Department of Refractive Surgery, Beverly Hills Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

    Rana Eskndafi MD, MS, ABO

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Correspondence to Jorge L. Alió MD, PhD .

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  1. Department of Anterior Segment & Refractive Surgery, Vissum Corp. Instituto Oftalmológico, Alicante, Spain

    Jorge L. Alió

  2. Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Illinois Eye and Ear Infirmary, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Dimitri T. Azar

  3. Vissum Corporacion Instituto Oftalmologica, Alicante, Spain

    Alessandro Abbouda

  4. Vissum Corporacion Instituto Oftalmologica, Alicante, Spain

    Amr El Aswad

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Alió, J.L., Abbouda, A., Eskndafi, R. (2015). A Case of Severe Haze After PRK in a Patient Treated by a 6th-Generation Excimer Laser. In: Alió, J., Azar, D., Abbouda, A., Aswad, A. (eds) Difficult and Complicated Cases in Refractive Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55238-0_70

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