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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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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 |