Nerve coaptation using a CO2 milliwatt laser;Nervenkoaptation mit dem CO2-laser im milliwattbereich

Handchirurgie Mikrochirurgie Plastische Chirurgie

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 116-121

  Happak, W ^a   Neumayer, Ch ^a   Burggasser, G ^a   Holak, G ^a   Kuzbari, R ^b   Gruber, H ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

CO2 laser; Laser welding; Nerve coaptation; Nerves; Tensile strength

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LASER SURGERY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; RAT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURE; TENSILE STRENGTH; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ANIMALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LASER SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; NEUROSURGERY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 0031596969     PISSN: 07221819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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