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Published on: June 30, 2017
Moustafa I Hafez1, Anne Sandison, Richard R H Coombs
1Department of Musculoskeletal Surgery, Imperial College London, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK. m.hafez@imperial.ac.uk
Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.)
|November 8, 2011
Abstract:
With the use of lasers for ablation purposes in spinal surgery, the tissue temperature increases above the boiling point of water, leading to tissue ablation by vaporisation. Due to the thermal environment engendered by the use of lasers, there is concern about the safety of the surrounding important structures, such as dura mater, dorsal root ganglia, and nerve roots.
