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Article: Alcon Signs Contract with LCA-Vision for 75 ALLEGRETTO WAVE[R] Excimer Lasers.(Clinical report)
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- March 25, 2009
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Alcon, Inc. (NYSE: ACL) announced that its affiliate Alcon Laboratories, Inc. has signed a five year contract with LCA-Vision, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCAV). Under the contract, LCA will place ALLEGRETTO WAVE[R] Eye-Q 400Hz excimer lasers in all of the companyEs 75 LasikPlus[R] vision surgery centers by the end of the third quarter of 2009. The contract comes as part of a decision by LCA to standardize its laser surgery technology on two laser platforms based on the results of a clinical study (see also Alcon, Inc.).
oLasikPlus[R] recently completed a contralateral, prospective, randomized study measuring surgical outcomes on a variety of excimer lasers, including the most ...