Dural defect repair with fascia by a CO2 laser system in a porcine model

Laryngoscope

Volumn 116, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1002-1006

  Forer, Boaz ^a,b   Vasilyev, Tamar ^a   Brosh, Tamar ^a   Kariv, Naam ^a   Trejo, Leonor Leider ^a   Gil, Ziv ^a   Katzir, Abraham ^c   Fliss, Dan M ^c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Albumin; CO2 laser; Dura; Fascia; In vivo; Pig; Reconstruction

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN TISSUE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; DURA MATER; FASCIA; LASER SURGERY; LIQUORRHEA; MENINX DISORDER; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; THERMAL INJURY; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; IN VITRO STUDY; INSTRUMENTATION;

ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DURA MATER; FASCIA; LASER SURGERY; SWINE;

EID: 33745271385     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlg.0000217241.01388.2d     Document Type: Article

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