Treatment of facial venous malformations with combined radiofrequency current and 900 nm diode laser

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1308-1312

  Lapidoth, Moshe ^a   Yaniv, Eitan ^a   Amitai, Dan Ben ^a   Raveh, Eyal ^a   Kalish, Eyal ^a   Waner, Milton ^b   David, Michael ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIODE; DRUG SAFETY; EDEMA; ELECTROOPTICAL SYNERGY; ERYTHEMA; FACE MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TECHNOLOGY; TISSUE TYPES; VEIN MALFORMATION;

EID: 27744524193     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00042728-200510000-00008     Document Type: Article

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