Q-switched ruby versus long-pulsed dye laser delivered with compression for treatment of facial lentigines in Asians

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 94-97

  Kono, Taro ^a   Manstein, Dieter ^b   Chan, Henry H ^c,d   Nozaki, Motohiro ^a   Anderson, R Rox ^b  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Asian; Lentigines; Long pulsed dye laser; Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation

Indexed keywords

MELANIN; OXYHEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION THERAPY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; LENTIGO; MALE; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; Q SWITCHED RUBY LASER; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ERYTHEMA; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LENTIGO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 33645014618     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20246     Document Type: Article

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