Poster session

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 127 KB
• Volume: 10
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-5701
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00132138

✦ Synopsis

In order to incise the intraocular tissue without bleeding or to coagulate it, a contact laser tip for intraocular surgery was developed using artificial sapphire. Using the conical contact laser scalpel which was connected to a conventional optical quartz fiber of a c.w. Nd:YAG laser system, the retina as well as the choroid of the rabbit eye was incised without bleeding at a power of 2 watts. However, an area beneath the incised retina and choroid was damaged as well. Therefore, it was suggested that a special spatula-like protector might be necessary.