Effects of laser versus scalpel tenolysis in the rabbit flexor tendon

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 595-601

  Constantinescu, Mihai A ^b   Greenwald, Daniel P ^a   Amarante, Marco T J ^b   Nishioka, Norman S ^b   May Jr , James W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CONTROLLED STUDY; HOLMIUM LASER; LASER; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SCALPEL; STRENGTH; TENDON INJURY; TENDON RECONSTRUCTION;

ADHESIONS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; HINDLIMB; LASER SURGERY; RABBITS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; TENDON INJURIES; TENDONS;

EID: 0030021086     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006534-199603000-00016     Document Type: Article

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