Variable-pulse Nd:YAG laser in the treatment of facial telangiectasias

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 7-12

  Bevin, Avery A ^a,d   Parlette, Eric C ^a   Domankevitz, Yacov ^b,c   Ross, E Victor ^a  

^a NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Candela Laser Corporation   (United States)

^c Candela Corporation   (United States)

^d Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; FACE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; PAIN; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURPURA; TELANGIECTASIA; THROMBOSIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; LASER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FACE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; TELANGIECTASIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645804064     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32001.x     Document Type: Article

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