Treatment of Pseudofolliculitis Barbae Using the Long-Pulse Nd:YAG Laser on Skin Types V and VI

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1187-1191

  Weaver III, Seymour M ^a,b   Sagaral, Emelou C ^a  

^a Adv Laser and Cosmetic Dermatology   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PAPULE; PIGMENT DISORDER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSEUDOFOLLICULITIS BARBAE; PUSTULE; SCAR FORMATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEODYMIUM; YTTRIUM;

EID: 0346256856     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2003.29387.x     Document Type: Article

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