Laser Coagulation of Ocular Tissues

A History of the Surgical Management of Glaucoma

“…It was often followed by corneal and lenticular opacities and the use of this method was limited to aphakic patients. 42 In early 1960s, Flocks and Zweng 43,44 used…”

A History of the Surgical Management of Glaucoma

“…It was often followed by corneal and lenticular opacities and the use of this method was limited to aphakic patients. 42 In early 1960s, Flocks and Zweng 43,44 used…”

Fifty Years of Ophthalmic Laser Therapy

“…11 Within a year, studies were appearing from these laboratories on retinal applications of the ruby laser. [12][13][14] Although the results of ruby laser application were impressive, they were also troubling. The retinal burns were intense and could produce chorioretinal adhesion or destruction of pigmented lesions.…”

Lasers in surgery and medicine

“…Practically since the first demonstration of a working laser (Maiman 1960) surgeons have adopted the device as their own. The ophthalmologists were the first to use the laser surgically, first in trials on rabbits and cats (Kapany et a1 1963) and then in the human eye (Flocks and Zweng 1964) for various operations, including the celebrated welding of a detached retina onto the pigment epithelium. A brief flirtation with high-power pulsed lasers to eradicate malignant tumours in various sites was ended, mainly as the result of two papers by Minton et a1 (1965) and Ketcham et a1 (1967) who showed that there was a real danger of viable cancer cells being forced explosively during the pulses into surrounding normal tissue and adjacent blood vessels and lymphatics.…”

A History of the Surgical Management of Glaucoma

“…It was often followed by corneal and lenticular opacities and the use of this method was limited to aphakic patients. 42 In early 1960s, Flocks and Zweng 43,44 used…”

Fifty Years of Ophthalmic Laser Therapy

“…11 Within a year, studies were appearing from these laboratories on retinal applications of the ruby laser. [12][13][14] Although the results of ruby laser application were impressive, they were also troubling. The retinal burns were intense and could produce chorioretinal adhesion or destruction of pigmented lesions.…”

Lasers in surgery and medicine

“…Practically since the first demonstration of a working laser (Maiman 1960) surgeons have adopted the device as their own. The ophthalmologists were the first to use the laser surgically, first in trials on rabbits and cats (Kapany et a1 1963) and then in the human eye (Flocks and Zweng 1964) for various operations, including the celebrated welding of a detached retina onto the pigment epithelium. A brief flirtation with high-power pulsed lasers to eradicate malignant tumours in various sites was ended, mainly as the result of two papers by Minton et a1 (1965) and Ketcham et a1 (1967) who showed that there was a real danger of viable cancer cells being forced explosively during the pulses into surrounding normal tissue and adjacent blood vessels and lymphatics.…”

A History of the Surgical Management of Glaucoma

“…It was often followed by corneal and lenticular opacities and the use of this method was limited to aphakic patients. 42 In early 1960s, Flocks and Zweng 43,44 used…”

Fifty Years of Ophthalmic Laser Therapy

“…11 Within a year, studies were appearing from these laboratories on retinal applications of the ruby laser. [12][13][14] Although the results of ruby laser application were impressive, they were also troubling. The retinal burns were intense and could produce chorioretinal adhesion or destruction of pigmented lesions.…”

Lasers in surgery and medicine

“…Practically since the first demonstration of a working laser (Maiman 1960) surgeons have adopted the device as their own. The ophthalmologists were the first to use the laser surgically, first in trials on rabbits and cats (Kapany et a1 1963) and then in the human eye (Flocks and Zweng 1964) for various operations, including the celebrated welding of a detached retina onto the pigment epithelium. A brief flirtation with high-power pulsed lasers to eradicate malignant tumours in various sites was ended, mainly as the result of two papers by Minton et a1 (1965) and Ketcham et a1 (1967) who showed that there was a real danger of viable cancer cells being forced explosively during the pulses into surrounding normal tissue and adjacent blood vessels and lymphatics.…”