An objective assessment of botulinum toxin A effect on superficial skin texture

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 469-473

  Dessy, Luca Andrea ^a,c   Mazzocchi, Marco ^a   Rubino, Corrado ^b   Mazzarello, Vittorio ^b   Spissu, Noemi ^b   Scuderi, Nicolò ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^c NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Botulinum toxin A; Superficial skin texture

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; SILICON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISTABEX;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SKIN TEXTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST; WRINKLE;

ADULT; BOTULINUM TOXIN TYPE A; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROMUSCULAR AGENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPLICA TECHNIQUES; SILICONES; SKIN; SKIN AGING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34247471096     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000244968.16977.1f     Document Type: Article

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