Effect of the timing of treatment of port-wine stains with the flash- lamp-pumped pulsed-dye laser

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 338, Issue 15, 1998, Pages 1028-1033

  Van Der Horst, Chantal M A M ^a,b   Koster, Petra H L ^a   De Borgie, Corianne A J M ^a   Bossuyt, Patrick M M ^a   Van Gemert, Martin J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED DYE LASER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLORIMETRY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LASERS; MALE; PORT-WINE STAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032499032     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199804093381504     Document Type: Article

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