Traumatic tattoo: Use of the variable pulsed Erbium:YAG laser

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 605-609

  Cambier, Bernard ^a,b   Rogge, Fabrice ^a,c  

^a Academic Hospital Saint Blasius   (Belgium)

^b Private Clinic of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery   (Belgium)

^c NONE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; LASER ABLATION; LASER PULSES; PATIENT TREATMENT; SKIN; TISSUE;

PIGMENTATION; SCAR QUALITY; TRAUMATIC TATTOOS;

SOLID STATE LASERS;

POVIDONE IODINE; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; SUNSCREEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLEARANCE; ERBIUM YAG LASER; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RELIABILITY; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TATTOO; TRAUMATIC TATTOO; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CLOSURE;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FACIAL INJURIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION;

EID: 33750947832     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2006.24.605     Document Type: Article

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