Klin Khir. 1994 ; (3): 16-9.

[The use of laser radiation in the treatment of complicated chest trauma]

Grubnik VV, Shipulin PP, Potapenkov MA, Prokhoda SA, Kho SB, Tkach IuG, Poliak SD.

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.