Treatment of facial rhytids with a nonablative laser: A clinical and histologic study

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 440-444

  Menaker, Gregg M ^a,c   Wrone, David A ^a   Williams, Ronda M ^b   Ronald L, Moy ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE SURGERY; FEMALE; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN BIOPSY; WOUND HEALING; YAG LASER;

ADULT; AGED; FACE; HUMANS; LASERS; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; SKIN AGING;

EID: 0033037207     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.1999.08158.x     Document Type: Article

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