Use of KTP/532 Laser in ORL Field

• Yamashita Koichi

  Department of Otolaryngology, Kanazawa Medical University

• Edamatsu Hideo

  Department of Otolaryngology, Kanazawa Medical University

• Noguchi Yoshihiro

  Department of Otolaryngology, Kanazawa Medical University

Abstract

This paper reports our experience in the otorhinolaryngological field with the KTP/532 laser. Since 1993, we have employed the KTP/532 laser in 31 cases with ORL problems. The KTP/532 laser was applied with both a transmitting flexible quartz fiber (Microstats) and a micromanipulator (Microbeam). Application with a transmitting quartz fiber facilitates cutting with the contact mode and coagulation with the noncontact mode simultaneously. It cuts faster than the Nd: YAG laser and coagulates much better than the CO₂ laser. In endonasal surgery, penetration of the bony wall is easily achieved with the contact KTP/532 laser. With an operating microscope, although the KTP/532 laser is not suitable to perform defocused vaporization in a superficially limited disease in cases such as carcinoma in situ of the vocal fold, a sharp cutting with Microbeam was extremely effective to incise mass lesion.

Journal

• Nippon Laser Igakkaishi

  Nippon Laser Igakkaishi 15 (Supplement), 463-468, 1994

  Japan Society for Laser Surgery and Medicine

Details

• CRID: 1390282680432420992
• NII Article ID: 130004702502
• DOI: 10.2530/jslsm1980.15.supplement_463
• ISSN: 02886200
• Text Lang: en
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