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Lasers in Medical Science

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01-09-2005 | Book Review

Zlato Simunovic (editor and co-ordinating author): Lasers in medical surgery and dentistry

European Medical Laser Association, 2005. 944 pages, approx. 800 colour photos, tables, diagrams and schemes. € 219.74.

Author: Neville Krasner

Published in: Lasers in Medical Science | Issue 2/2005

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The use of lasers in medicine is a melting pot. Ophthalmology and dermatology, the specialties initially and significantly employing laser as a treatment instrument, have established a wide variety of applications with a range of lasers and wavelengths, and yet, new developments are regularly forthcoming. This impressively produced book, now in its third edition, provides a comprehensive and reasonably up-to-date review of medical lasers, not only as a treatment modality, but in the rapidly expanding area of diagnostics. Lasers do not always provide the optimum modality for a particular procedure, and several chapters in the book present a much needed balance on the relative values, as well as the disadvantages and hazards of treatments, even in experienced hands. …

Title: Zlato Simunovic (editor and co-ordinating author): Lasers in medical surgery and dentistry
European Medical Laser Association, 2005. 944 pages, approx. 800 colour photos, tables, diagrams and schemes. € 219.74.
Author: Neville Krasner
Publication date: 01-09-2005
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Lasers in Medical Science / Issue 2/2005
Print ISSN: 0268-8921
Electronic ISSN: 1435-604X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10103-005-0343-0

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Zlato Simunovic (editor and co-ordinating author): Lasers in medical surgery and dentistry

European Medical Laser Association, 2005. 944 pages, approx. 800 colour photos, tables, diagrams and schemes. € 219.74.

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