Healing of laser incisions in rat dermis: Comparisons of the carbon dioxide laser under manual and computer control and the scalpel

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 90-96

  Howard, John ^a   Arango, Pablo ^a   Ossoff, Jake ^a   Ossoff, Robert H ^a   Reinisch, Lou ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

computer controlled scanning; laser beam delivery; laser surgery; motion tracking; robotics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; COMPUTER ASSISTED THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCALPEL; SKIN INJURY; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; LASER SURGERY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; ROBOTICS; SKIN; TENSILE STRENGTH; THERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030944440     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1997)20:1<90::AID-LSM14>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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