Laser Hair Removal: Comparison of Long-Pulsed Nd:YAG, Long-Pulsed Alexandrite, and Long-Pulsed Diode Lasers

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 4 I, 2004, Pages 498-502

  Bouzari, Navid ^a,c   Tabatabai, Hossein ^a,b   Abbasi, Zahra ^b   Firooz, Alireza ^a   Dowlati, Yahya ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b Mehregan Skin Laser Center   (Iran)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ALEXANDRITE LASER; ARTICLE; BULLOUS SKIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; DRUG POTENCY; EDEMA; EROSION; ERYTHEMA; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLICULITIS; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PAIN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FACE; FEMALE; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NECK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1942466597     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2004.30163.x     Document Type: Article

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