Light and electron microscopic investigation of the process of healing of the naevus of Ota by Q-switched alexandrite laser irradiation

Virchows Archiv

Volumn 431, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 63-71

  Hakozaki, Mika ^a   Masuda, Tomoyuki ^a   Oikawa, Hiroki ^a   Nara, Taku ^a  

^a IWATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Light microscopy; Naevus of Ota; Q switched alexandrite laser

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL VACUOLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DERMIS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KERATINOCYTE; LASER SURGERY; MACROPHAGE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; MICROSCOPY; OTA NEVUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DISCOLORATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CELL NUCLEUS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; LASERS; MACROPHAGES; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS OF OTA; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 0030872209     PISSN: 09456317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004280050070     Document Type: Article

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