Treatment of angiokeratoma of fordyce with pulsed dye laser

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1147-1150

  Lapidoth, Moshe ^a,b   Ad El, Dean ^a,b   David, Michael ^a   Azaria, Ron ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOKERATOMA OF FORDYCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEMANGIOKERATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT SAFETY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SCORING SYSTEM; SCROTUM DISORDER; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN STRUCTURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOKERATOMA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENITAL NEOPLASMS, MALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE NEOPLASMS; SCROTUM; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748527774     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.32252.x     Document Type: Article

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