The use of copper-vapor laser radiation on patients with chemical burns of the esophagus via fiber esophagoscopy
Sinev, I.V.; Kovanev, A.V.; Volkov, S.V.
Sovetskaia Meditsina 7: 27-29
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0038-5077 PMID: 1948336 Document Number: 379199
Fifty patients with chemical burns of the esophagus were examined fibroesophagoscopically. All of them underwent local endoscopic irradiation by a copper vapour laser. Laser treatment promoted more rapid healing of the esophageal wall. No cicatrization-induced strictures were noted. Adjuvant local laser therapy is believed valid in management of esophageal chemical trauma.