Laser resection technique and results of multiple lung metastasectomies using a new 1,318 nm Nd:YAG laser system

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 26-32

  Rolle, Axel ^a,b   Pereszlenyi, Arpad ^a   Koch, Rainer ^b   Bis, Beata ^a   Baier, Barbara ^a  

^a Centre of Pneumology and Thoracic Surgery   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

1,318 nm Nd:YAG laser; Lung metastasectomy; Lung parenchymal sparing resection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY CANCER; LASER SURGERY; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LOBECTOMY; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 32544431556     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20259     Document Type: Article

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