Is topical anesthesia useful in noninvasive skin tightening using radiofrequency?

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 526-533

  Kushikata, Nobuharu ^a   Negishi, Kei ^a   Tezuka, Yukiko ^a   Takeuchi, Kaori ^a   Wakamatsu, Shingo ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHEEK; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PAIN; PAIN THRESHOLD; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REJUVENATION; SKIN TIGHTNESS; TOPICAL ANESTHESIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FACE; HOSPITALIZATION; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHYTIDOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PAIN, POSTOPERATIVE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RADIO WAVES; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN AGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 20844440008     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042728-200505000-00006     Document Type: Article

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