Study of the incidence and nature of "very subtle epidermal melasma" in relation to intense pulsed light treatment

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 881-886

  Negishi, Kei ^a   Kushikata, Nobuharu ^a   Tezuka, Yukiko ^a   Takeuchi, Kaori ^a   Miyamoto, Eiko ^a   Wakamatsu, Shingo ^a   Cox, Sue Ellen ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SUNSCREEN;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CAMERA; CHLOASMA; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY; MELANOSIS; PHOTOAGING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; AGED; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; MELANOSIS; MICROSCOPY, ULTRAVIOLET; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN AGING;

EID: 2942633976     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2004.30257.x     Document Type: Article

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