Studies on problems in clincal applications of CO₂ laser surgical apparatus.

Abstract

Clinical application of laser surgery using CO₂Lasery 60 have been used for 29 cases of various surgical fields in the Surgical Center, University of Tokyo Hospital. These cases include 10 cases of liver surgery, 5 cases of brain tumor, 6 cases of hemangioma and lymphangioma and others.
The effect for cutting and coagulating are satisfactory, when surgeons are accustomed how to use laser surgical apparatus.
Several problems concerning the clinical application in many surgical fields are discussed. The first desired point is to obtain the easier operability of the hand piece and manipulator of the machine.