doi:10.3928/1081597X-20100921-01 T he excimer laser as an experimental and surgi-cal tool was fi rst introduced into ophthalmology and refractive surgery over 25 years ago with the publication of the seminal article by Ste-phen Trokel, MD; Rangaswamy Srinivasan, PhD; and Bodil Braren in the American Journal of Ophthalmol-ogy in 1983.1 Two and one-half decades of development in excimer laser vision correction have led to the current status of LASIK being the most frequently performed elective surgical procedure in the modern world. How excimer laser surgery got started in ophthalmol-ogy 25 years ago, and the pathway of its development and refi nement was the subject of the International Society of Refractive Surgery’s scientifi c symposium at the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) an-nual meeting on November 9, 2008. This review is the
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