Treatment of digital mucous cysts with a carbon dioxide laser

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 224-225

  Karrer, Sigrid ^a   Hohenleutner, Ulrich ^a   Szeimies, Rolf Markus ^a   Landthaler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital cyst; Ganglion; Laser vaporization; Myxomatous cyst

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NAIL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOCYST; REMISSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARBON DIOXIDE; CYSTS; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033010947     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000155599750011039     Document Type: Article

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