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To evaluate the efficacy and safety of mechanical debridement and suturing of the laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) flap in the treatment of clinically significant epithelial ingrowth after LASIK.

Laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK) was performed in 1 eye of a patient for correction of myopia. The patient was evaluated postoperatively using both Placido-disk-based videokeratography and rasterstereography. The patient developed an epithelial defect and subsequent sublamellar epithelial ingrowth after LASIK. The Placido-disk system demonstrated an area of flattening over the area of epithelial ingrowth, and rasterstereography more specifically identified the area over the epithelial ingrowth as an area of relative elevation.