American Journal of Pharmacy and Health Research

AJPHR

2321-3647

AJPHR511005

A Prospective Randomized Study of Diathermy versus Scalpel Skin Incision.

Meena

Anju Nagar1 Mahesh kumar bagriya2 RS

Senior Professor and head of department., (Department of

11 01 2017

5 11

ABSTRACTDiathermy is widely used for underlying tissue dissection, cutting, and hemostasis even though a fear of excessive scarring and poor wound healing have curtailed its widespread use for skin incision. Only few surgeons employ diathermy in making a skin incision with fear of producing deep burns and resultant scarring. Keywords: Diathermy, incision, scalpel

Diathermy incision scalpel