New approaches to the treatment of vascular lesions

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 158-163

  Dover, Jeffrey S ^a,b   Arndt, Kenneth A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Leg veins; Long pulse laser; Port wine stain; Telangiectasia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COOLING; DIODE LASER; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SKIN SURGERY; TECHNOLOGY; YAG LASER;

HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LASERS; PORT-WINE STAIN; TELANGIECTASIS; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0034003656     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9101(2000)26:2<158::AID-LSM6>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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