Early clinical results with a multiple synchronized pulse 1064 NM laser for leg telangiectasias and reticular veins

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 399-402

  Weiss, Robert A ^a,b   Weiss, Margaret A ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Dermatology Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LEG DISEASE; LEG VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN DILATATION; VEIN DISEASE;

FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS; TELANGIECTASIS; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0033049164     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.1999.08268.x     Document Type: Article

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