Repeated treatment protocols for melasma and acquired dermal melanocytosis

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-371

  Yoshimura, Kotaro ^a   Sato, Katsujiro ^a   Aiba Kojima, Emiko ^a   Matsumoto, Daisuke ^a   MacHino, Chiaki ^a   Nagase, Takashi ^a   Gonda, Koichi ^a   Koshima, Isao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING AGENT; GENTAMICIN; HYDROQUINONE; LACTIC ACID; RETINOIC ACID; SUNSCREEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHLOASMA; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; OTA NEVUS; PIGMENTED NEVUS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANTIOXIDANTS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FACIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROQUINONES; KERATOLYTIC AGENTS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; MELANOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS, PIGMENTED; RETREATMENT; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRETINOIN;

EID: 33645460370     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.032074.x     Document Type: Article

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