Evaluation of a KTP (potassium-titanyl-phosphate) 532 nm laser for endovaporization of choroidal melanomas.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Variable square pulse (VSP) Er:YAG laser should be quicker than older Er:YAG lasers. The objectives were: (1) comparison of VSP laser and mechanical handpiece efficacy for apicectomy and (2) determination of optimal pulse width/energy/frequency combination. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS:...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Grgurević J,Grgurević L,Miletić I,Karlović Z,Krmek SJ,Anić I

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acute or emergency treatment of traumatic tattoos has been based on the principles of immediate and thorough removal of all particles. The delayed treatment of traumatic tattoos has classically been with overgrafting or dermabrasion. We developed an animal model for traumatic tattoos. Two levels of wounds were mad...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Sunde D,Apfelberg DB,Sergott T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:High-power laser has recently become a physical stimulus for bone regeneration. Little is known about how high-power laser irradiation affects osteoblast differentiation. This study investigated osteoblast responses to high-power laser and combined irradiation with BMP-2 treatment. STUDY DESIG...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Kim IS,Cho TH,Kim K,Weber FE,Hwang SJ

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal welding by means of low-power laser has been reported as an efficient method for intestinal anastomosis. We designed an experimental model in rats to investigate collagen and DNA concentrations in CO2 laser-welded anastomoses as compared with those in sutured anastomoses on the 4th, 7th, and 10th postoperat...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Rabau MY,Wasserman I,Shoshan S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Chronic sun-exposure results in five main changes to exposed skin: telangiectasia, hyperpigmentation, rhytides, enlarged pores, and sagging skin. Various laser and non-laser modalities have been used to improve sun-damaged skin. The pulsed-dye laser (PDL) has an unparalleled safety record and ...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Bernstein EF

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:To produce controlled, spatially confined thermal effects in dermis. STUDY DESIGNS/MATERIALS AND METHODS:A 1 W, 1,500 nm fiber-coupled diode laser was focused with a high numerical aperture (NA) objective to achieve a tight optical focus within the upper dermis of skin held in contact with a ...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Khan MH,Sink RK,Manstein D,Eimerl D,Anderson RR

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Our skin is constantly exposed to light from solar radiation and electronic devices, which impact skin physiology and aging. The biological altering properties of ultraviolet (UV) solar radiation on skin have been well established. There is significant scientific and public interest on the effects of electro...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Austin E,Huang A,Adar T,Wang E,Jagdeo J

更新日期：2018-02-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients suffering from malignant gliomas have a poor prognosis. For the surgical treatment of these tumors, 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) has become a new standard. AIMS:This review intends to provide an overview over current status, significance, limitations, and future perspectives of 5-ALA based fluores...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Stepp H,Stummer W

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe our experience and the problems we encountered organizing an autonomous surgical unit in which the equipment and organization enable three lasers to be used in may different applications in medicine and surgery. The three lasers--CO2, Nd:YAG, and argon--may now be used by all the departments concerned with...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Chavoin JP,Costagliola M,Laffitte F,Vachaud M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Near-infrared radiation from a Nd:YAG laser at 1,064 nm was used interstitially or superficially to induce hyperthermia in RIF-1 tumors in C3H male mice. A single 600-microns quartz fiber with a 0.5-cm cylindrical diffusor or a weakly diverging microlens at its distal end was used to deliver laser energy to tumors in ...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Waldow SM,Russell GE,Wallner PE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Energy-based treatments have been found to be a promising treatment modality for improving stress urinary incontinence (SUI) symptoms. This prospective two-center study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of fractional-pixel CO2 laser for the treatment of SUI. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND MET...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Franić D,Fistonić I,Franić-Ivanišević M,Perdija Ž,Križmarić M

更新日期：2020-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Photochemical internalization (PCI) is a method for intracellular delivery of hydrophilic macromolecular drugs with intracellular targets as well as other drugs with limited ability to penetrate cellular membranes. Such drugs enter cells by means of endocytosis and are to a large extent degraded by hydrolytic enzymes ...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Weyergang A,Selbo PK,Berstad ME,Bostad M,Berg K

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Urinary incontinence is a common and distressing condition which interferes with everyday life. Patients frequently experience discomfort related to urine leakage and the subsequent need to use absorbent pads. Since the continence mechanism is primarily maintained by a proper function of pelvi...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Samuels JB,Pezzella A,Berenholz J,Alinsod R

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Lasers can be used to modify the chemical composition of dental enamel to increase the bond strength to restorative materials and to render the mineral phase more resistant to acid dissolution. Previous studies have suggested a synergistic relationship between CO(2) laser irradiation and fluor...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Wheeler CR,Fried D,Featherstone JD,Watanabe LG,Le CQ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:A randomized clinical trial using the argon-green (514 nm) and the double-frequency Nd:YAG (532 nm) lasers was carried out on 42 eyes with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), with the aim of assessing the long-term effects of double-frequency Nd:YAG panretinal photocoagulation (PRP). MAT...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Bandello F,Brancato R,Lattanzio R,Trabucchi G,Azzolini C,Malegori A

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:It is recognized that hypoxic/ischemic conditions leading to production of reactive oxygen species (ROS) are an important mediator of angiogenesis in the wound-healing process. Recently, low level light irradiation at 635 nm, which is used in many clinical fields, was found to decrease intrace...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Lim WB,Kim JS,Ko YJ,Kwon H,Kim SW,Min HK,Kim O,Choi HR,Kim OJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the use of a pulsed argon laser to perform iridotomies in 87 patients. Diagnosis include: primary angle closure glaucoma, narrow angle in the fellow eye of patients with primary angle glaucoma, pupillary block, and after incomplete surgical iridectomies. Laser iridotomy was achieved in 79% of pati...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Schwartz LW,Spaeth GL

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Herein an overview is provided of the causes, consequences, and significance of photodynamic therapy (PDT)-mediated effects on tumor oxygenation and blood flow during illumination. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS:Techniques particularly valuable to this research have included tissue oxygen ...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Busch TM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:We reported the use of Holmium-YAG laser in the management of a foreign body impacted in the esophagus. STUDY DESIGN/PATIENTS AND METHODS:Esophagoscopy was performed on a man with a denture impacted in the esophagus. The denture was disimpacted into the stomach and fractured with Holmium-YAG l...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Lam YH,Ng EK,Chung SC,Li AK

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of light in laser-irradiated biological medium is computed using four different procedures. Values computed with Beer's law of attenuation, Kubelka-Munk theory, the diffusion approximation, and a seven-flux model are compared. The proper conditions for using each model are discussed. ...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Welch AJ,Yoon G,van Gemert MJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to quantitatively measure changes in the elastic moduli of rabbit nasal septal cartilage during laser heating. While the efficacy of laser cartilage reshaping has been established for use in nasal surgery, few studies have investigated the temperature-dependent ...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Chao KK,Ho KH,Wong BJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:The argon laser-assisted vascular anastomosis may solve the problems of conventional sutured anastomosis, such as vascular stenosis and arrest of growth owing to a foreign-body reaction to suture material. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS:Twelve argon laser-assisted vascular anastomoses, se...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Chikamatsu E,Sakurai T,Nishikimi N,Yano T,Nimura Y

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of relatively novel approach of application of polychromatic light waves on flap survival of experimental musculocutaneous flap model and to investigate efficacy of this modality as a delay procedure to increase vascularization of zone 4 of transverse rectus ab...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Calis M,Demirtas TT,Sert G,Irmak G,Gumusderelioglu M,Turkkani A,Çakar AN,Ozgur F

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Swelling and trismus are complications experienced by nearly all subjects after undergoing oral surgery for the removal of impacted teeth. The main purpose of this paper was to compare the effects of photobiomodulation therapy (PBMT) at two different wavelengths applied intra-orally and extra-o...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Sierra SO,Deana AM,Bussadori SK,da Mota AC,Ferrari RA,do Vale KL,Fernandes KP

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the biostimulating effects of helium-neon laser radiation (HeNe; 632.8 nm), pulsed infrared laser radiation (IR; 904 nm), and the two combined on skin wound healing in New Zealand white rabbits. Seventy-two rabbits received either 1) no exposure, 2) 1.65 J/cm2 HeNe, 3) 8.25 J/cm2 pulsed IR, or 4) both HeNe...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Braverman B,McCarthy RJ,Ivankovich AD,Forde DE,Overfield M,Bapna MS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To examine the biophysical effects of photothermal heating on herniated intervertebral discs during laser decompression surgery. STUDY DESIGN/MATERIALS AND METHODS:Ex vivo bovine nucleus pulposus specimens were irradiated with a Nd: YAG laser (lambda = 1.32 microm, 100 seconds expos...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Choi JY,Tanenbaum BS,Milner TE,Dao XV,Nelson JS,Sobol EN,Wong BJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laser photocoagulation has proven to be valuable in the treatment of port-wine stains. In this application, the minimal blanching technique is used as an indicator of suitable dosage since it has been demonstrated that the immediate appearance a white mark is required to achieve permanent blanching a few months later....

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Mordon S,Beacco C,Rotteleur G,Brunetaud JM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photocoagulating properties of the water-jet-cooled Nd:YAG laser (1,064 nm) have been studied in a rat tumor model. A colon carcinoma CC531 was implanted in the liver; 20 days after inoculation, laser therapy was performed with 600 J, 850 J, 1,200 J, 1,700 J, or 2,400 J at a power setting of either 10 or 20 W. Liv...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Van Hillegersberg R,Kort WJ,ten Kate FJ,Terpstra OT

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:Postoperative scarring after thyroidectomy is a problem for both patients and clinicians. Recently, both non-ablative and ablative fractional laser (NFL and AFL) systems have attracted attention as potential therapies for the revision of thyroidectomy scars. The present split-scar study was des...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Shin JU,Gantsetseg D,Jung JY,Jung I,Shin S,Lee JH

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES:Nonmelanoma skin cancers, including basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), are the most common skin cancers, presenting nearly as many cases as all other cancers combined. The current gold-standard for clinical diagnosis of these lesions is histopathologic examination, a...

journal_title：Lasers in surgery and medicine

authors： Lieber CA,Majumder SK,Ellis DL,Billheimer DD,Mahadevan-Jansen A

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00