Contact Laser Endoscopic Surgery With Sapphire Micro-Probes

Pasquale Spinelli; Marco Dal Fante

doi:10.1117/12.937080

10 July 1987 Contact Laser Endoscopic Surgery With Sapphire Micro-Probes

Pasquale Spinelli, Marco Dal Fante

Proceedings Volume 0701, 1986 European Conf on Optics, Optical Systems and Applications; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.937080
Event: 1986 International European Conference on Optics, Optical Systems, and Applications, 1986, Florence, Italy

Abstract

Recently developed synthetic sapphire cristal tips can be easily attached to the end of a quartz fiber: contact irradiation of the target prevents backscattering of laser energy and allows low-power coagulation of bleeding sources and vaporization of tumors as well as mechanical removal of tissue. Clinical experience in 12 patients treated both with contact method and with conventional non-contact method is presented.

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Pasquale Spinelli and Marco Dal Fante "Contact Laser Endoscopic Surgery With Sapphire Micro-Probes", Proc. SPIE 0701, 1986 European Conf on Optics, Optical Systems and Applications, (10 July 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.937080

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