Closure of skin incisions by 980-nm diode laser welding

Lasers in Medical Science

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-10

  Gulsoy, Murat ^a   Dereli, Zeynep ^a   Tabakoglu, Hasim O ^a   Bozkulak, Ozguncem ^a  

^a BOGAZICI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Laser welding; Skin closure; Suture; Wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; GRANULATION TISSUE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SKIN INCISION; SUTURE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MODELS, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33646437927     PISSN: 02688921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10103-006-0375-0     Document Type: Article

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