Role of laser therapy in dermatology - Clinical aspects

Dermatology

Volumn 208, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 129-134

  Landthaler, M ^a   Ulrich, H ^a   Hohenleutner, S ^a   Wimmershoff, M ^a   Hohenleutner, U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hemangioma; Laser treatment; Port wine stain

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARGON LASER; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOLOGY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; KELOID; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SCAR; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TUMOR; TATTOO; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIRAL SKIN DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LASER SURGERY; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1842580417     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076486     Document Type: Article

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