Treatment of recurrent nasal polyp using the ultrapulse CO2 laser

Wu-Yan Cao; Jun-Ping Cheng; Cheng-Wei Chen

doi:10.1117/12.330184

2 November 1998 Treatment of recurrent nasal polyp using the ultrapulse CO₂ laser

Wu-Yan Cao, Jun-Ping Cheng, Cheng-Wei Chen

Proceedings Volume 3344, 1997 Shanghai International Conference on Laser Medicine and Surgery; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.330184
Event: 1997 Shanghai International Conference on Laser Medicine and Surgery, 1997, Shanghai, China

Abstract

The recurrent nasal polyp complicated with nasosinusitis offer reflareacutely, and even form which various encranial and eye's compliances and lost smell are resulted. It is shown that the problem can cause the blocked breathes and bad sleeping of afflicted patients only if their nasal polyp was not completely cut out and relapsed into an action repeatedly. It is a goal procedure for ultrapulse CO₂ laser manufactured by Coherent Corp. Ltd. USA treating the problem. The machine gives out a great high power of pulse mode that destroyed precisely the polyp tissue by its vaporization. However, neither the continual laser nor the pulse laser does so easily. The selected cases included fiber persons with recurrent nasal polyp who were at the age range of 25-40 years old and took a different ill-period of 5-20 years long. They consisted of 3 cases for posterior rhinopolypus with bent nasoseta and 2 cases for median rhinopolypus. Majority of them experienced traditional operations of four times and at least for two times, but the relapse of rhinopolypus always adhere to them.

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Wu-Yan Cao, Jun-Ping Cheng, and Cheng-Wei Chen "Treatment of recurrent nasal polyp using the ultrapulse CO₂ laser", Proc. SPIE 3344, 1997 Shanghai International Conference on Laser Medicine and Surgery, (2 November 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.330184

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