SAN FRANCISCO — In patients with microstriae after LASIK, phototherapeutic keratectomy may be useful in smoothing out the corneal surface, according to one surgeon. Roger Steinert, MD, speaking ...

LASIK is a safe and effective treatment for refractive errors, ... This complication is a result of the misalignment of the flap and can be classified into macrostriae and microstriae.

LASIK is a treatment for the correction of myopia, hyperopia and astigmatism. ... or folds. Microstriae, which are harder to correct, are more likely to occur with very thin flaps.

Trainee procedures’ postoperative complications, such as microstriae and interface debris, were more than 10 percent more common than complications in the attending group, but these were not visually ...