Treatment of Resistant Port Wine Stains with the V Beam® Pulsed Dye Laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 282-287

  Laube, Simone ^a,b   Taibjee, Saleem ^a   Lanigan, Sean W ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF NORTH STAFFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Birthmarks; Flashlamp pumped pulsed tunable dye laser; PDL; PWS

Indexed keywords

EMLA; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENERGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; PYOGENIC GRANULOMA; REFLECTOMETRY; SCAR; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PORT-WINE STAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347511730     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.10234     Document Type: Article

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