title: Use of laser knife in thoracic surgery.
abstract: CO2 laser knife was applied in 18 thoracic operations. The laser knife can be used for the sterile and ablastic cutting of skin, soft parts, ribs, sternum, bronchi and lung parenchyma. By its use intraoperative bleeding is substantially diminished.
authors.affiliation: 3rd Department of Surgery, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tóth
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Szöts
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ughy
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D013903:Thoracic Surgery / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods