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Laryngeal microsurgery with the Carbon Dioxide laser: Techniques and instrumentation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

J. A. S. Carruth*
Affiliation:
Southampton
*
J. A. S. Carruth. F.R.C.S., Consultant Otolaryngologist, Royal South Hants Hospital, Graham Road, Southampton SO9 4PE.

Summary

The role of the Carbon Dioxide laser in the performance of laryngeal microsurgery is discussed with reference to its advantages over conventional techniques. The need to excise lesions rather than to vaporise them is stressed and additional instrumentation is described.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1985

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