Alabaster skin after CO2 laser resurfacing: Evidence for suppressed melanogenesis rather than just melanocyte destruction

Cutis

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-17

  Helm, Thomas N ^a   Shatkin Jr , Samuel ^a  

^a Buffalo Medical Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; MART1 ANTIGEN; TUMOR ANTIGEN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LASER; MALE; MELANOCYTE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDER; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SKIN;

ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; CARBON DIOXIDE; HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LASERS; MALE; MELANOCYTES; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; SKIN;

EID: 31944437334     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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