The use of laser radiation in the treatment of complicated chest trauma
Grubnik, V.V.; Shipulin, P.P.; Potapenkov, M.A.; Prokhoda, S.A.; Kho, S.B.; Tkach, I.G.; Poliak, S.D.
Klinicheskaia Khirurgiia 3: 16-19
1994
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2130 PMID: 7637280 Document Number: 427120
The results of treatment of 84 sufferers with a complicated thoracic trauma, using irradiation of the YAG-neodymium, argon, helium-neon and arsenide-gallium lasers, are presented. The techniques for the use of lasers for photocoagulation of defects of the lung and thoracic wall through a thoracoscope, endobronchial laser therapy and laser puncture is described. The expediency to use laser irradiation in the complex of treatment of a complicated thoracic trauma is shown.