Gundersen flap

{{Short description|Surgical procedure for correcting corneal disease}}

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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.[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

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.{{cite journal| pmid=13582332 | volume=60 | title=Conjunctival flaps in the treatment of corneal disease with reference to a new technique of application | year=1958 | author=Gundersen T | journal=AMA Arch Ophthalmol | issue=5 | pages=880–8 | doi=10.1001/archopht.1958.00940080900008}}