Clinical effect of a single pulsed dye laser treatment of fresh surgical scars: Randomized controlled trial

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 21-25

  Alam, Murad ^a   Pon, Kucy ^b   Van Laborde, S ^b   Kaminer, Michael S ^b,c,d   Arndt, Kenneth A ^b,c,d,e   Dover, Jeffrey S ^b,c,d,f  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SkinCare Physicians of Chestnut Hill   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLACTIN; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; NEVUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED DYE LASER; PURPURA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCAR; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN INCISION; SKIN INDURATION; SURGICAL SCAR; SURGICAL WOUND; SUTURE REMOVAL; DEVICE REMOVAL; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKIN TUMOR; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CICATRIX; DEVICE REMOVAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; NEVUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645827178     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.032029.x     Document Type: Article

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