Treatment of benign and atypical nevi with the normal-mode ruby laser and the Q-switched ruby laser: Clinical improvement but failure to completely eliminate nevomelanocytes

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 290-296

  Duke, Daniella ^a,b,c   Byers, H Randolph ^d   Sober, Arthur J ^a   Anderson, R Rox ^a   Grevelink, Joop M ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Eastern Connecticut Dermatology   (United States)

^d MGH Dermatology Laser Center ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL NEVUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPLASTIC NEVUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; MELANOCYTE; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 0032900447     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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