Laser treatment with a 1064-nm laser for lower extremity class I-III veins employing variable spots and pulse width parameters

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 916-919

  Sadick, Neil S ^a,b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMAGING; LEG BLOOD VESSEL; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NEODYMIUM LASER; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BRUISING; TELANGIECTASIA; THROMBUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LOWER EXTREMITY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TELANGIECTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEINS;

EID: 0042736312     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1524-4725.2003.29250.x     Document Type: Article

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