Thickness of healthy and affected skin of children with port wine stains: Potential repercussions on response to pulsed dye laser treatment

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 12 I, 2004, Pages 1457-1461

  Nagore, Eduardo ^a,c   Requena, Celia ^a   Sevila, Amparo ^a   Coll, Joaquim ^b   Costa, Dolors ^b   Botella Estrada, Rafael ^a   Sanmartin, Onofre ^a   Serra Guillén, Carlos ^a   Guillén, Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE ONCOLOGÍA   (Spain)

^b SA   (Spain)

^c NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 11144242404     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2004.30503.x     Document Type: Article

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