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Repairing wounds with a light stitch Senior editor Charles T. Troy reported in the September issue that laser radiation can be used effectively to bond wounds on the battlefield in combination with dyes to heat the tissue (“Treating battlefield injuries with light,” p. 16). The article covered the work of Dr. Irene Kochevar at Harvard Medical School in Boston and Massachusetts General Hospital’s Wellman Center, and of Dr. Robert Redmond, also at Wellman. An approach known as laser tissue welding (LTW) uses laser energy at a certain wavelength, bypassing foreign...Read full article

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    Published: January 2011
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