The Treatment of Port-wine Stains by the Pulsed Dye Laser: Analysis of Pulse Duration and Long-term Therapy

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 889-896

  Garden, Jerome M ^a   Polla, Luigi L ^b   Tan, Oon T ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYE LASER; HUMAN; LASER COAGULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0023929589     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 15383652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.1988.01670060035012     Document Type: Article

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