CO2 surgical laser in the treatment of some types of pathology of pets

Christian Serra; Stefania Pinna; Antonio Venturini; Giacomo Rossi; Damiano Fortuna

doi:10.1117/12.486623

15 October 2002 CO₂ surgical laser in the treatment of some types of pathology of pets

Christian Serra, Stefania Pinna, Antonio Venturini, Giacomo Rossi, Damiano Fortuna

Proceedings Volume 4903, Laser Florence 2001: A Window on the Laser Medicine World; (2002) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.486623
Event: Laser Florence 2001: a Window on the Laser Medicine World, 2001, Florence, Italy

Abstract

We have treated with CO₂ laser surgery 40 cases which contemplated: stomatitis and other oral pathologies, anorectal, cutaneous, subcutaneous lesions, and other ophthalmic ones. The parameters employed to evaluate surgical treatment success were: histological analyses, time of healing process and incidence (per cent) of relapses. During the T/3 period (45 days) all cases of feline stomatitis relapsed. The 83% of pets that suffered of anorectal pathologies healed up to 21 days and no relapse was observed in T/4 period (180 days). The cutaneous and subcutaneous nodules vaporization caused lesions that healed during 7 days (T/1) and no relapse was observed after laser treatment. In cutaneous chronic ulcers and in reptilian abscesses we had the lesions reparation by second intention healing in T/3. A case of feline oral squamocellular carcinoma relapsed in T/3 after laser treatment. The results showed three different level of utility: indispensable, useful but unnecessary, inefficacious. The CO₂ laser application resulted the best treatment for anorectal pathologies, cutaneous ulcerations and reptilian abscesses. The laser surgery was only useful but unnecessary in treatment of cutaneous and subcutaneous neoformations and also in oral and peri-ophthalmic pathologies. Finally, the laser application appeared inefficacious in squamocellular carcinoma and in chronic phlogosis of feline oral cavity.

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Christian Serra, Stefania Pinna, Antonio Venturini, Giacomo Rossi, and Damiano Fortuna "CO₂ surgical laser in the treatment of some types of pathology of pets", Proc. SPIE 4903, Laser Florence 2001: A Window on the Laser Medicine World, (15 October 2002); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.486623

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Carbon dioxide lasers

Pathology

Laser therapeutics

Laser ablation

Tissues

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