Ninety percent permanent hair reduction in transsexual patients

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 243-248

  Schroeter, Careen Angela ^c   Groenewegen, Jan Stephen ^d   Reineke, Thorsten ^a   Neumann, Hendrik Arend Martino ^b  

^a Gesellschaft F Med Forschung   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROLYSIS; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMINIZATION; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; HAIR FOLLICLE; HAIR GROWTH; HIRSUTISM; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; MALE; MELANOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX ROLE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADULT; AGED; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; TRANSSEXUALISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0042338304     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.SAP.0000063759.59038.7E     Document Type: Article

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