Laser System Shows Promise for Cataract Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine Reveals

ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2010) — Imagine trying to cut by hand a perfect circle roughly one-third the size of a penny. Then consider that instead of a sheet of paper, you're working with a scalpel and a thin, elastic, transparent layer of tissue, which both offers resistance and tears easily. And, by the way, you're doing it inside someone's eye, and a slip could result in a serious impairment to vision.

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