Radial keratotomy: factors in medicolegal claims.
Twelve medicolegal claims based on radial keratotomies are evaluated. Although surgical technique or complications of the operation were the bases of a few claims, most related to inadequate informed consent and/or poor selection of patients. Using these twelve cases as examples, the author offers advice to avoid pitfalls in both preoperative decision making and surgical procedure.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003315:Cornea / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007603:Jurisprudence; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications