Psoriasis response to the pulsed dye laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 331-335

  Ros, Anne Marie ^a,b   Garden, Jerome M ^b   Bakus, Abnoeal O ^b   Hedblad, Mari Anne ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

flashlamp pumped pulsed dye laser; psoriatic microvasculature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EPIDERMOLYSIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PULSED DYE LASER; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL;

ADULT; AGED; CAPILLARIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSORIASIS; SKIN;

EID: 0029946435     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1996)19:3<331::AID-LSM8>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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