Optimal pulse durations for the treatment of leg telangiectasias with a neodymium YAG laser

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 98-105

  Parlette, Eric C ^a   Groff, William F ^b   Kinshella, Matthew J ^a   Domankevitz, Yacov ^c   O'Neill, Jennifer ^a   Ross, E Victor ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Naval Hospital   (Japan)

^c Candela Laser Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Laser; Leg vein; Light; Neodymium YAG; Telangiectasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; LEG VEIN; NEODYMIUM LASER; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; PULSED DYE LASER; SCLEROTHERAPY; TELANGIECTASIA; VEIN DIAMETER; YAG LASER;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASERS; LEG; MIDDLE AGED; NEODYMIUM; PURPURA; TELANGIECTASIS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YTTRIUM;

EID: 30944450636     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20245     Document Type: Article

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