A comparison of carbon dioxide laser, liquid nitrogen cryosurgery, and scalpel wounds in healing.
With the carbon dioxide surgical laser, the liquid nitrogen cryoprobe, and the scalpel, wounds were created on the shaved abdomen of 24 rats, and the patterns of healing were studied. The laser wounds were the first to epithelialize, followed by the scalpel wounds, with the cryosurgery wounds the slowest to epithelialize. The results were confirmed histologically.
Pogrel
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Division of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of California, San Francisco.
Yen
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Hansen
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D000818:Animals; D003452:Cryosurgery; D062109:Dermatologic Surgical Procedures; D053685:Laser Therapy; D010784:Photomicrography; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods*; D014945:Wound Healing