Efficacy of the flashlamp-pumped pulsed-dye laser in nonsurgical delay of skin flaps

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 692-699

  Erçöçen, Ali Riza ^a,b   Kono, Taro ^b   Kikuchi, Yuji ^b   Kitazawa, Yoshihiko ^b   Nozaki, Motohiro ^b   Lee, Ken K ^c  

^a CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIAN INK;

ANGIOGENESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HISTOPATHOLOGY; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MAST CELL DEGRANULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; RAT; SAFETY; SKIN FLAP; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; CARBON; COLORING AGENTS; GRAFT SURVIVAL; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SKIN; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL FLAPS;

EID: 0038153903     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2003.29189.x     Document Type: Article

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