Treatment of inflammatory arthritis by synovial ablation: A comparison of the holmium:YAG laser, electrocautery, and mechanical ablation in a rabbit model

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 143-151

  Soffa, Amy J ^a   Markel, Mark D ^a   Converse, Lisa J ^a   Massa, Kathleen L ^a   Bogdanske, John J ^a   Dillingham, Michael F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

knee joint; laser therapy; synovectomy; synovial membrane

Indexed keywords

HOLMIUM; NEODYMIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAUTERIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; HOLMIUM LASER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; JOINT CAPSULE; LASER SURGERY; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SYNOVECTOMY; SYNOVIAL FLUID; SYNOVITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; EDEMA; ELECTROCOAGULATION; KNEE JOINT; LASER SURGERY; PAIN; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SYNOVIAL MEMBRANE;

EID: 0029847297     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:2<143::AID-LSM4>3.3.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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