Wound healing and collagen thermal damage in 7.5-μsec pulsed CO2 laser skin incisions

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 22-32

  Sanders, David L ^a   Reinisch, Lou ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Histology; Laser surgery; Pulse structure; Sprague Dawley rat; Tensiometry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; COLLAGEN DEFECT; HEAT INJURY; LASER SURGERY; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN INCISION; TENSILE STRENGTH; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BURNS; CARBON DIOXIDE; COLLAGEN; HEAT; LASER SURGERY; RATS; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0033984079     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(2000)26:1<22::AID-LSM5>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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