KTP green laser vaporization of biologic tissue under water and its clinical application

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 337-341

  Yanyan, He ^a   Zhengjia, Li ^a   Chuyun, Huang ^a   Yuncheng, Yao ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; LASER BEAMS; MUSCLE; ONCOLOGY; POTASSIUM; PULSED LASER DEPOSITION; TUMORS;

GREEN LASERS;

LASERS;

ISOTONIC SOLUTION; PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM; TITANIUM; WATER;

ADULT; AGED; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLADDER TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; DOG; GREEN LASER SYSTEM; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; LASER PROSTATECTOMY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; URETHRA STRICTURE; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VAPORIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; DOGS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLES; PROSTATE; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; SWINE; URETHRAL STRICTURE; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; WATER;

EID: 50649088607     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2007.2194     Document Type: Article

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