Pigmentary changes after pulsed dye laser treatment in 125 northern European patients with port wine stains

British Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 477-479

  Fiskerstrand, E J ^a   Svaasand, L O ^a   Volden, G ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b Dermapharma   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC SKIN DISEASE; CHILD; CLIMATE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOGENESIS; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SCAR; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN COLOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORT-WINE STAIN; SEASONS; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0031894556     PISSN: 00070963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1998.02127.x     Document Type: Article

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