Mitomycin C and Excimer Laser Surface Ablation

摘要

A decade ago, in the 1998 Year Book of Ophthalmology, my introductory chapter was titled "Managing Corneal Haze after Excimer Laser PRK." I wrote primarily about ways to speed reepithelialization, the use of topical steroids and treating haze with subsequent photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) or phototherapeutic keratectomy (PTK). Mitomycin C (MMC) was not even mentioned. How far we have come.