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[Initial studies of the possibility of selective ablation of arteriosclerotic vascular changes using laser-induced shock waves].

Alt E1, Mentrup H, Matula M, Funk A, Schrepf R, Heinz M, Hofmann R, Blömer H, Höfler H, Hartung R.
Zeitschrift für Kardiologie.Z Kardiol.1992 Jun;81(6):331-8.
We studied the effect of laser-induced shock waves in 94 arterial segments from freshly obtained autopsy material. In analogy to the well-established method of shock-wave based lithotripsy, the new principle of our treatment depends on an indirect interaction of the laser energy with the arterial wa
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