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{{Short description|Surgical procedure for correcting corneal disease}}
A '''Gundersen flap''', also known as '''Gundersen's flap''', '''Gundersen's conjunctival flap''', or '''conjunctivoplasty''', and often misspelled '''Gunderson''', is a [[surgical]] procedure for correcting [[corneal disease]]. It involves excising a damaged section of cornea, and replacing it with a section (or "flap") of the patient's own [[conjunctiva]].<ref>[http://www.nyee.edu/pdf/okap-speaker.pdf Cornea & External Disease], at the [[New York Eye and Ear Infirmary]]; by Mark Speaker and Robert Latkany; published 2002; retrieved April 23, 2012</ref>▼
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▲A '''Gundersen flap''', also known as '''Gundersen's flap''', '''Gundersen's conjunctival flap''', or '''conjunctivoplasty''', and often misspelled '''Gunderson''', is a [[surgical]] procedure for correcting [[corneal disease]]. It involves excising a damaged section of cornea, and replacing it with a section (or "flap") of the patient's own [[conjunctiva]].<ref>[http://www.nyee.edu/pdf/okap-speaker.pdf Cornea & External Disease] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327075348/http://www.nyee.edu/pdf/okap-speaker.pdf |date=2014-03-27 }}, at the [[New York Eye and Ear Infirmary]]; by Mark Speaker and Robert Latkany; published 2002; retrieved April 23, 2012</ref>
It is named for Trygve Gundersen (1902 – February 24, 1987), an American [[ophthalmologist]] of Scandinavian descent, who first described the procedure in 1958 at the [[Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary]].<ref>
==References==
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{{Eye procedures}}
[[Category:Eye surgery]]
[[Category:1958 introductions]]
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