Burn healing with a diode laser: 670 nm at different doses as compared to a placebo group

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 245-250

  Al Watban, Farouk A H ^a   Delgado, Glenda D ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOSIMETERS; MEDICINE; PATIENT TREATMENT; PREHEATING;

BURN HEALING; CALIPER; RATS; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS;

SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS;

KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; METAL; PLACEBO;

ANESTHESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; BURN; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; DOSE CALCULATION; DOSIMETRY; IRRADIATION; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BURNS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 21444455980     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2005.23.245     Document Type: Conference Paper

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