Side effects from dermatological laser treatment related to UV exposure and epidermal thickness: A murine experiment with the copper vapor laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 233-241

  Haedersdal, Merete ^a,b,c   Therkildsen, Pia ^a,b,c   Bech Thomsen, Niels ^a,b,c   Poulsen, Thomas ^a,b,c   Wulf, Hans Christian ^a,b,c  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b Sonderborg Hospital   (Denmark)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

cicatrix; laser surgery; UV radiation; wound healing

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; LASER SURGERY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN INJURY; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ANIMALS; CICATRIX; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; LASERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED HRS; RADIATION INJURIES, EXPERIMENTAL; SKIN; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0030973304     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(1997)20:3<233::AID-LSM1>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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