Light-activated sutureless closure of wounds in thin skin

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 163-167

  Yang, Penggao ^a,b   Yao, Min ^a,b,c   Demartelaere, Sheri L ^d   Redmond, Robert W ^a   Kochevar, Irene E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b No 3 People's Hospital   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^d SAN ANTONIO MILITARY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

eyelid; incision; laceration; laser welding; photochemical tissue bonding; Rose Bengal; wound closure; wound healing

Indexed keywords

ROSE BENGAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; INCISION; INFLAMMATORY INFILTRATE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOCHEMICAL TISSUE BONDING; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN; STRENGTH; SUTURE; SUTURING METHOD; WOUND CLOSURE;

ANIMALS; EYELIDS; FEMALE; LACERATIONS; MICE; MICE, HAIRLESS; PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; ROSE BENGAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84857229136     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.21137     Document Type: Article

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