A Pilot Study on the Treatment of Facial Rhytids Using Nonablative 585-nm Pulsed Dye and 532-nm Nd:YAG Lasers

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1192-1195

  Woo, Wai Kit ^a,b   Handley, Julian M ^a   Alam, Murad ^c  

^a ULSTER HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL VICTORIA HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE RHYTID; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; OPEN STUDY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SKIN SURGERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WRINKLE;

EID: 0347517847     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2003.29386.x     Document Type: Article

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