Safety of a new lightwand device (Trachlight(TM)): Temperature and histopathological study

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 717-718

  Nishiyama, Tomoki ^a,c   Matsukawa, Takashi ^b   Hanaoka, Kazuo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CAT; DESQUAMATION; DEVICE; EDEMA; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAFETY;

EID: 0031708668     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/00000539-199809000-00043     Document Type: Article

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