Nonsurgical delay of dorsal rat cutaneous flap using a long-pulsed 1064-nm Nd:YAG laser with a contact cooling device

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1411-1420

  Acikel, Cengiz ^a,b   Kenkel, Jeffrey M ^a   Ozturk, Serdar ^a   Nojima, Kimihiro ^a   Hoopman, John E ^a   Gokaslan, S Tunc ^a   Brown, Spencer A ^a  

^a Plastik ve Rekonstruktif Cerrahi Servisi ve Yanik Unitesi ^*

^b GATA HAYDARPASA TRAINING HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; NEODYMIUM; YTTRIUM;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MICROANGIOGRAPHY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN FLAP; SKIN INCISION; THERMOCOAGULATION;

ANIMALS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 26844537196     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000182371.16201.86     Document Type: Article

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