Closure of skin incisions in rabbits by laser soldering: I: Wound healing pattern

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-11

  Simhon, David ^a   Brosh, Tamar ^a   Halpern, Marisa ^b   Ravid, Avi ^a   Vasilyev, Tamar ^a   Kariv, Naam ^a   Katzir, Abraham ^a   Nevo, Zvi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cyanoacrylate; Sutures; Wound closure by albumin

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SERUM ALBUMIN; CYANOACRYLATE; GLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; EPITHELIZATION; FEMALE; FIBER OPTICS; HISTOLOGY; INFLAMMATION; INFRARED RADIATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER COAGULATION; LASER SOLDERING; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RABBIT; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN INCISION; SUTURE; TEMPERATURE; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; LASER SURGERY; RABBITS; SKIN; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 4043079844     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20074     Document Type: Article

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