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Ophthalmoplegia as an unusual initial symptom of non-Hodgkins' lymphoma in the head and neck
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Holmium: YAG laser surgery in obliterated cochleas: an experimental study in human cadaver temporal bones
A pulsed holmium: YAG laser (λ = 2120 nm) was used to reopen the basal turn of artificially obliterated human cochleas in freshly dissected cadavers. This allowed intracochlear insertion of the stimulation ele...
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Infrared laser stapedotomy
A pulsed holmium: YAG laser (λ = 1980 nm) was used to perform 0.4 mm stapedotomy fenestrations in human stapes footplates from freshly dissected cadavers under simulated surgical conditions. The energy was cou...