purpose: to report a case of delayed corneal perforation secondary to topical diclofenac usage after myopic lasek and review of literature. patients and findings: a 25-year-old female with history of myopic lasek 2 months before referred to her surgeon with epithelial defect, stromal thinning and infiltration. she was treated with antimicrobial medications for infectious keratitis for one week....

The corneal wound healing response following refractive procedures represents a subject of high relevance, due to its direct influence on the postoperative results. Technical modifications of current refractive procedures, like the automated flap creation with the femtosecond laser, LASEK, PRK with mitomycin C and Epi-LASIK have been proposed as alternatives to traditional LASIK and PRK. Severa...

Transport along axons and dendrites ranges from the fast movement of vesicles (50-500 mm day"), which can be observed directly by light microscopy, to the slow progress of cytoskeletal proteins. The latter, which has been followed only by using radiolabelled proteins (reviewed by Lasek et al. 1985), occurs at 0-2-8-0 mm day", but this is still faster than diffusion. The differential speeds of v...