Pseudo-melanoma after laser therapy

Dermatology

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-73

  Dummer, R ^a   Kempf, W ^a   Burg, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CO2 laser; Complications of laser therapy; Laser therapy; Pigmented lesions; Pseudo melanoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MELANOMA; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031815488     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000017962     Document Type: Article

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