Different modes cooling the epidermis with ice during Nd:YAG laser treatment of hemangiomas in children

Medical Laser Application

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 19-23

  Vlachakis, Ioannis ^a   Arbiros, Ioannis ^a   Velaoras, Konstantinos ^a   Charissis, Georgios ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Epidermis cooling; Hemangioma; Nd:YAG laser treatment

Indexed keywords

ICE; IRRADIATION; PATIENT TREATMENT;

EPIDERMIS; LASER TREATMENT;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

ICE;

ARTICLE; ATROPHIC SCAR; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; EPIDERMIS; ESTHETICS; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRRADIATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEODYMIUM LASER; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SCAR; SKIN PROTECTION; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2942709944     PISSN: 16151615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1078/1615-1615-00120     Document Type: Article

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