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Surgical smoke and ultrafine particles

BACKGROUND: Electrocautery, laser tissue ablation, and ultrasonic scalpel tissue dissection all generate a 'surgical smoke' containing ultrafine (<100 nm) and accumulation mode particles (< 1 μm). Epidemiological and toxicological studies have shown that exposure to particulate air p...

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Autores principales: Brüske-Hohlfeld, Irene, Preissler, Gerhard, Jauch, Karl-Walter, Pitz, Mike, Nowak, Dennis, Peters, Annette, Wichmann, H-Erich
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2621226/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19055750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6673-3-31