Laser surgery of port wine stains using local vacuum pressure: Changes in skin morphology and optical properties (part I)

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 108-117

  Childers, Michael A ^a   Franco, Walfre ^a,b   Nelson, J Stuart ^b   Aguilar, Guillermo ^a,b  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood vessel dilation; Port wine stains (PWS); Visible reflectance spectra (VRS)

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DEVICE; EPIDERMIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LASER SURGERY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PHOTOLYSIS; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SPECTROSCOPY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM; VASODILATATION; VISIBLE REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY;

BLOOD VESSELS; ELASTICITY; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PORT-WINE STAIN; SKIN; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; VACUUM;

EID: 33947123582     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20456     Document Type: Article

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