| Literature DB >> 14595392 |
S Elad1, R Or, M Y Shapira, A Haviv, D Galili, A A Garfunkel, M Bitan, E Kaufman.
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This paper is the first to report the benefits of CO2 laser treatment for pain control in severe oral chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). A CO2 laser device was used during 17 treatment sessions in four patients. The CO2 laser was applied over the mucosal lesions using 1 W for 2-3 s/1 mm(2). This treatment resulted in a consistent and significant decrease in pain, measured using a standard visual analogue scale. These results suggest that the CO2 laser can be used for the alleviation of pain in oral chronic GVHD.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 14595392 DOI： 10.1038/sj.bmt.1704272
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Bone Marrow Transplant ISSN： 0268-3369 Impact factor: 5.483