Laser scar revision: Comparison study of 585-nm pulsed dye laser with and without intralesional corticosteroids

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-29

  Alster, Tina ^a  

^a WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGIC LASER SURGERY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; LASER SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; PURPURA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCLEROSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN BIOPSY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MAMMAPLASTY; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE;

EID: 0037237721     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2003.29024.x     Document Type: Article

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