Interstitial Nd:YAG photocoagulation for vascular malformations and hemangiomas in childhood

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 431-436

  Clymer, Mark A ^a   Fortune, D Scott ^a   Reinisch, Lou ^a   Toriumi, Dean M ^b   Werkhaven, Jay A ^a   Ries, W Russell ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0031967636     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.124.4.431     Document Type: Article

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