Treatment of Ota's nevus using two different types of ruby lasers

European Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 347-351

  Tateshita, Tohru ^a   Ono, Ichiro ^a   Gunji, Hironori ^a   Sanbe, None ^a   Watanabe, Namie ^a   Satou, Morihiro ^a   Kaneko, Fumio ^a  

^a FUKUSHIMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Histological study; Normal pulsed ruby laser; Ota's nevus; Pigmented skin lesion; Q switched ruby laser

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTE; OTA NEVUS; PULSED DYE LASER; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030740778     PISSN: 11671122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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