Clinical experience in applying endoscopic Nd:YAG laser to treat 451 esophagostenotic cases

Rui-Zhong Wang; Zhen-he Wang; Kuang-sheng Lu; Xiao-zhi Yang; Bo-kao Lu

doi:10.1117/12.43930

1 July 1991 Clinical experience in applying endoscopic Nd:YAG laser to treat 451 esophagostenotic cases

Rui-Zhong Wang, Zhen-he Wang, Kuang-sheng Lu, Xiao-zhi Yang, Bo-kao Lu

Proceedings Volume 1421, Lasers in Urology, Laparoscopy, and General Surgery; (1991) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.43930
Event: Optics, Electro-Optics, and Laser Applications in Science and Engineering, 1991, Los Angeles, CA, United States

Abstract

This paper is to report and analyze our clinical experience in ap].ying endosoopi. c Nd:YAG laser to treat 451 esophagostenoses (1197 peraon times) including all kinds of then. All kinds of esophagostexiosis were mainly characterized by having difficulties swallowing foods. Some of their esophagus were even oompletely obstructed and could not drink even a drop of water On the basis of experint&xts in animals, fresh organs of the body, we started to treat all kinds of esophagostenosis with endoscopio Nd:YAG laser in 1985. By the end of 1989, 451 patients bad been treated in our hospital. Boh the patients and we felt satisfactory with the results we gain.

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Rui-Zhong Wang, Zhen-he Wang, Kuang-sheng Lu, Xiao-zhi Yang, and Bo-kao Lu "Clinical experience in applying endoscopic Nd:YAG laser to treat 451 esophagostenotic cases", Proc. SPIE 1421, Lasers in Urology, Laparoscopy, and General Surgery, (1 July 1991); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.43930

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