Comparison of a high power diode laser with the Nd:YAG laser using in situ wound strength analysis of healing cutaneous incisions

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 248-254

  Taylor, Donna Lee ^a,d   Schafer, Steven A ^b   Nordquist, Robert ^c   Payton, Mark E ^b   Dickey, D Thomas ^a   Bartels, Kenneth E ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Wound Healing of Oklahoma   (United States)

^d Southfields Veterinary Specialists Part of Linnaeus Veterinary Limited   (United States)

Author keywords

Breaking strength; Laser surgery; Tensile strength; Tensiometer

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; FIBROBLAST; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN INCISION; SKIN INJURY; TENSILE STRENGTH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; COLLAGEN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBROBLASTS; INFLAMMATION; LASER SURGERY; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SKIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030885982     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1997)21:3<248::AID-LSM4>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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