Laser resurfacing in the ethnic skin

Facial Plastic Surgery Clinics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 397-404

  Jackson, Brooke A ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; CHLOASMA; CONSULTATION; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; ECTROPION; ERYTHEMA; ESTHETIC SURGERY; ETHNIC GROUP; FACIES; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LASER SURGERY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN SCAR; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN SURGERY; SKIN TUMOR; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNITED STATES;

ETHNIC GROUPS; FACE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; SKIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION;

EID: 0036874203     PISSN: 10647406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1064-7406(02)00033-0     Document Type: Review

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