The single point cam guided trephine: an interim report.
The development of the single point cam guided cornea trephine frees the cornea surgeon from always cutting a round recipient window perpendicular to the visual axis of the eye. This new trephine allows for any angle of cut relative to the visual axis of the eye and any shaped window, be that window round, ellipse, oval or "other than round." Full development of the technique lies in the future with the development of more complete topographical measuring techniques and the integration of the measurement into a computer program wherein the computer controls the indexing of the blade cutting the recipient window and the angle of the blade while the blade is making the incision.
D003315:Cornea / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008722:Methods; D009216:Myopia / Q000601:surgery*; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D013525:Surgical Instruments