[Neurosurgery with a CO2 laser. Evaluation of 61 operations]. / Neurochirurgie au laser CO2. Bilan de 61 interventions.

The authors present the results of their over two years experience with CO2 Laser neurosurgical unit. They explicit the indications and the technical data followed during intra-cranial (N = 44), intra-spinal (N = 12) and intra-orbital (N = 5) procedures. Meningiomas, neurinomas and adenomas are the best indications for tumoral CO2 Laser neurosurgery. In other respects sterilization and cranialization of aeric sinuses are simplified by the use of CO2 Laser: it assures vaporization of the mucosa and carbonization of the walls more easily than an electric coagulator. At last the use of CO2 Laser for dissection and removal of intra-orbital tumors is quite demonstrative. Thus owing to its physical and thermical qualities CO2 Laser is often a very useful, sometimes irreplaceable, apparatus: provided that its indications are precise and rigorous.