Low Level Laser Therapy - A conservative approach to the burn scar?

Burns

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 362-367

  Gaida, Karin ^a   Koller, Rupert ^b   Isler, Can ^a   Aytekin, Oygar ^a   Al Awami, Mahdi ^a   Meissl, Günther ^a   Frey, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b WILHELMINEN HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

Burn scar; Low Level Laser Therapy; Vancouver Scar Scale

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN SCAR; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHOTOMETRY; PRURITUS; RATING SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BURNS; CICATRIX; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PRURITUS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442562665     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.burns.2003.12.012     Document Type: Article

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