Treatment of facial skin using combinations of CO2, Q-switched alexandrite, flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye, and Er:YAG lasers in the same treatment session

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 114-120

  Manuskiatti, Woraphong ^a   Fitzpatrick, Richard E ^a   Goldnan, Mitchel P ^a  

^a Dermatology Associates of San Diego County Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYE LASER; ERBIUM YAG LASER; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELANGIECTASIA;

ACNE VULGARIS; CICATRIX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FACE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; SKIN; SKIN AGING; TELANGIECTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033981964     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2000.98159.x     Document Type: Article

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