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Simple surgical steps give femtosecond laser accuracy to conventional cataract surgery
WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — To improve accuracy of conventional cataract surgery, mark the limbal relaxing incision with the patient upright, mark the capsulotomy, and be compulsive about cleaning up epithelial cells, a speaker said here.In a presentation at Hawaiian Eye 2013, John A. Hovanesian, MD, FACS, presented data on optimizing cataract surgery outcomes to achieve similar accuracy as obtained by femtosecond lasers.