Animal model for thoracoscopic laser ablation of emphysematous pulmonary bullae

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 191-196

  Brenner, Matthew ^a   Shankel, Theodore ^a   Waite, Teri A ^b   Hamilton, Ann ^b   Bendsza, Diane ^b   Wang, Nai San ^a   Milner, Thomas ^b   Roeck, Werner ^b   Tadir, Yona ^b   Tromberg, Bruce ^b   Wilson, Archie F ^a   Berns, Michael W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

bullectomy; lung; rabbit; thoracoscopy

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LASER SURGERY; LUNG BULLA; LUNG EMPHYSEMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOSCOPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BLISTER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; LASER SURGERY; LUNG; PULMONARY EMPHYSEMA; RABBITS; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 9044219845     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)18:2<191::AID-LSM10>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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