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ABSTRACT Eleven patients with high astigmatism after penetrating keratoplasty underwent a new form of relaxing keratotomy, the trapezoidal relaxing keratotomy, originally described by Ruiz. The average preoperative astigmatism was 7.89 diopters (range 4.25 to 12.50 diopters) with an average reduction in cylinder of 5.00 diopters (range 0-9.5 diopters). No complications were experienced.
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