Laser therapy converts diabetic wound healing to normal healing

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-135

  Al Watban, Farouk A H ^a  

^a KING FAISAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODELS; BURN HEALING; CLINICAL TRIALS; DIABETIC RATS; DOSIMETRIC PARAMETERS; FAR INFRARED; LASER DOSIMETRIES; LASER THERAPIES; PHOTON SOURCES; PHOTOTHERAPY; POLYCHROMATIC LIGHTS; SPEED-UP; SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WOUND-HEALING;

ANIMALS; DOSIMETERS; DOSIMETRY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; LASERS; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; RATS;

SUGAR (SUCROSE);

ANIMALS; BURNS; DIABETES MELLITUS, EXPERIMENTAL; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 61649106965     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2008.2406     Document Type: Article

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