Value in microsurgery of the ultrapulse carbon dioxide laser for rapid skin deepithelialization

Microsurgery

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 47-51

  Hallock, Geoffrey G ^a,b  

^a LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPETENCE; DONOR SITE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MICROSURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; RECIPIENT; SKIN EPITHELIUM; SKIN FLAP; SURGEON;

CARBON DIOXIDE; EPITHELIUM; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MICROSURGERY; SKIN; SURGICAL FLAPS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0034061007     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2752(2000)20:2<47::AID-MICR1>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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