Side effects from the pulsed dye laser: The importance of skin pigmentation and skin redness

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 445-450

  Hædersdal, Merete ^a   Gniadecka, Monika ^a   Efsen, Jan ^a   Bech Thomsen, Niels ^a   Keiding, Jens ^b   Wulf, Hans Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Leo Pharmaceutical Products ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cicatrix; Experimental study; Hyperpigmentation; Hypopigmentation

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; MALE; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PIGMENT DISORDER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; REFLECTOMETRY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAR; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; COLOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIACIN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PLACEBOS; PORT-WINE STAIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0031762332     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000155598442764     Document Type: Article

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