Prolonged erythema after facial laser resurfacing or phenol peel secondary to corticosteroid addiction

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 781-785

  Rapaport, Marvin J ^a,c   Rapaport, Vicki ^b  

^a UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; BENZOCAINE; CLOBETASOL PROPIONATE; CORTICOSTEROID; CRYSTAL VIOLET; DESOXIMETASONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUOCINOLONE ACETONIDE; LUBRICATING AGENT; MOMETASONE FUROATE; MYCOLOG; NEOMYCIN; POLYSPORIN; POVIDONE IODINE; SUNSCREEN; TERRACORTRIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DERMATITIS; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; SEBORRHEIC DERMATITIS; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN ATROPHY; TELANGIECTASIA; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATATION;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHEMEXFOLIATION; ERYTHEMA; FACE; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOL; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; SKIN;

EID: 0032853640     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.1999.99097.x     Document Type: Article

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