Intense pulsed light treatment of 1,000 consecutive patients with facial vascular marks

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 226-232

  Clementoni, Matteo Tretti ^a   Gilardino, Patrizia ^a   Muti, Gabriele F ^a   Signorini, Massimo ^a   Pistorale, Antonio ^a   Morselli, Paolo G ^a   Cavina, Carlo ^a  

^a NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Capillaries; Intense Pulsed Light; Lasers; Teleangectasias; Vascular marks

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; EVALUATION; FACE DEFORMITY; FACE TELANGIECTASIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT LASER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645382655     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-005-0086-0     Document Type: Article

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