Effect of the CO2 milliwatt laser on neuroma formation in rats

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 81-85

  Kuzbari, Rafic ^a,c   Liegl, Christian ^b   Neumayer, Christoph ^b   Moser, Hermann ^b   Burggasser, Georg ^b   Holle, Jürgen ^a   Gruber, Helmut ^b   Happak, Wolfgang ^b  

^a WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c NONE   (Austria)

Author keywords

CO2 laser; histology; neuroma prevention; peripheral nerve; traumatic neuroma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HISTOLOGY; NEUROMA; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; LASER COAGULATION; MYELINATED NERVE; NERVE FIBER; NERVE REGENERATION; PATHOLOGY; PERIPHERAL NERVE TUMOR; PERONEUS NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIBIAL NERVE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; LASER COAGULATION; LASERS; NERVE FIBERS; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NERVE REGENERATION; NEUROMA; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM NEOPLASMS; PERONEAL NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TIBIAL NERVE;

EID: 0029658176     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)18:1<81::AID-LSM10>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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