Low-level laser therapy with a pulsed infrared laser accelerates second-degree burn healing in rat: A clinical and microbiologic study

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 603-611

  Ezzati, Ali ^a   Bayat, Mohammad ^a   Khoshvaghti, Amir ^b  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFTERBURNING; BURN HEALING; BURN MODEL; ENERGY DENSITY; FOUR-GROUP; INFRARED DIODE LASERS; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NITROFURAZONE; PULSED INFRARED LASERS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; T-TESTS; WOUND CLOSURE; WOUND HEALING;

INFRARED LASERS; LASER SURGERY; LASER TISSUE INTERACTION; RAT CONTROL; RATS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PULSED LASERS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BURN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; FOLLOW UP; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SCALE; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZATION; RAT; REFERENCE VALUE; SOLID STATE LASER; TIME; WISTAR RAT; WOUND HEALING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BURNS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME FACTORS; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 78751662958     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2544     Document Type: Article

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