New semiconductor laser for vitreoretinal surgery

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 177-183

  Azzolini, Claudio ^a   Gobbi, Pier Giorgio ^a   Brancato, Rosario ^a   Trabucchi, Giuseppe ^a   Codenotti, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

infrared laser; laser surgery; membranectomy; photoablation; retinotomy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORIORETINOPATHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; EPIRETINAL MEMBRANE; INFRARED RADIATION; LASER COAGULATION; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; RETINA TEAR; RETINOTOMY; SEMICONDUCTOR; VITREORETINOPATHY;

ANIMALS; HEAT; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; PHYSICS; RABBITS; RETINA;

EID: 0029846108     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:2<177::AID-LSM9>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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