Bleomycin tattooing as a promising therapeutic modality in large keloids and hypertrophic scars

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1023-1030

  Naeini, Farahnaz Fatemi ^a,b   Najafian, Jamshid ^a   Ahmadpour, Koorosh ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; TRIAMCINOLONE; FLUOROURACIL; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KELOID; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TATTOOING; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT RESPONSE; DRUG ABSORPTION; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INJECTION PAIN; INJECTION SITE PAIN; NOTE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

EID: 33746874807     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32225.x     Document Type: Article

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