Table 1 Visual and refractive outcomes, safety and predictability of some recent studies performed on small incision lenticule extraction

Sekundo et al 2011 [8]

91

0.5

-4.75±1.56

-0.01±0.49

80

84 – 20/20

Shah et al 2011 [9]

51

0.5

-4.87±2.16

+0.03±0.30

91

67 – 20/20

Hjortdal et al 2012 [10]

670

0.25

-7.19±1.30

-0.25±0.44

80

61 – 20/20

Karmia et al 2014 [11]

26

0.5

-4.21±1.63

+0.01

100

96 – 20/20

Aǧca et al 2014 [12]

40

1

-4.03±1.61

-0.02±0.06

95

65 – 20/20

Reinstein 2014 [13]

110

1

-2.61±0.54

-0.05±0.36

-

96 – 20/20

Vestergaard 2014 [14]

127

0.25

-7.18±1.57

-0.09±0.45

77

37 – 20/20

73 – 20/25

Pedersen et al 2015 [15]

87

3

-7.30±1.40

-0.40±0.60

70

49 – 20/25

Chan et al 2015 [16]

54

0.17

-6.05±1.46

-0.10±0.23

98.2

76 – 20/25

Wu et al 2016 [17]

39

1

-6.90±0.86

-0.05±0.33

96.7

93 – 20/25

Blum et al 2016 [18]

56

5

-4.89±4.97

-0.375

48.2

n.a.

Yildirim et al 2016 [19]

45

2

-7.10±0.95

-0.30±0.50

92

86 – 20/20

Han et al 2016 [20]

47

2

-6.30±1.47

-0.09±0.39

89

92 – 20/20

Liu et al 2016 [21]

113

0.5

-5.22±1.70

-0.03±0.13

97

96 – 20/20

Ganesh et al 2017 [22]

50

0.25

-0.14±0.28

-0.14±0.28

86

96 – 20/20

Pietila 2018 [23]

300

1

-4.08±1.65

0.04±0.48

91

80 – 20/20