Whereas the focused COz laser may be used as a cutting instrument in less vascularized tissue with limited trauma to the surrounding tissue, use of the defocused Nd-YAG laser results in homogeneous coagulation with an energydependent depth effect. Thus, residual tumor tissue may be cauterized select
Use of the Nd-YAG laser in neurosurgery
β Scribed by Otto J. Beck
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 572 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0344-5607
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