Algorithm for using a long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser in the treatment of deep cutaneous vascular lesions

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 35-42

  Groot, Don ^a   Rao, Jaggi ^b   Johnston, Patricia ^b   Nakatsui, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH CAVITY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, VASCULAR TISSUE; PORT-WINE STAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0037241716     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2003.29016.x     Document Type: Article

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