Can patients treat themselves with a small novel light based hair removal system?

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 25-29

  Rohrer, Thomas E ^d   Chatrath, Vandana ^a   Yamauchi, Paul ^c   Lask, Gary ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Clinical Research Specialists   (United States)

^d SkinCare Physicians of Chestnut Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser; Light based hair removal system; Self treatment

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; AXILLA; BACK; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HAIR; HAIR GROWTH; HOME CARE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INGUINAL REGION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF CARE; SKIN PIGMENTATION; THORAX; TRAINING; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; SELF CARE; SKIN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0041767231     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10192     Document Type: Article

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