Practical Considerations in the Treatment of Capillary Vascular Malformations, or Port Wine Stains

Facial Plastic Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 71-76

  Lam, Samuel M ^b   Williams III, Edwin F ^a,c  

^a Williams Center for Facial Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^b Lam Facial Plastic Surgery Center   (United States)

^c ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Port wine stain; Practical; Pulsed dye laser

Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULSED DYE LASER; REVIEW; SCAR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHILD; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; INFANT; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; KLIPPEL-TRENAUNAY-WEBER SYNDROME; LASER COAGULATION; MALE; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR; STURGE-WEBER SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842455045     PISSN: 07366825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-822962     Document Type: Review

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