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  • Title: Complications of argon laser retinal photocoagulation: a five-year study.
    Author: Little HL.
    Journal: Int Ophthalmol Clin; 1976; 16(4):145-59. PubMed ID: 1033162.
    Abstract:
    The operator must become familiar with the dangers involved with argon laser photocoagulation. The hazards in the use of the argon laser slit-lamp photocoagulator derive from the same properties of the instrument that make it advantageous for the treatment of retinal vascular diseases: the wavelengths are highly absorbed by blood, and the beam can be focused to a small diameter. Of course complications can be avoided entirely by using applications so light the virtually no effect is obtained; but such an approach, although safe, cannot be therapeutic.
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