A randomized, controlled, double-blind study evaluating melanin-encapsulated liposomes as a chromophore for laser hair removal of blond, white, and gray hair

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 551-554

  Sand, Michael ^a,c   Bechara, Falk Georges ^a   Sand, Daniel ^b   Altmeyer, Peter ^a   Hoffmann, Klaus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ST JOSEF HOSPITAL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hair removal; Liposomes; Melanin; Photothermolysis

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOMAL MELANIN; LIPOSOME; LIPOXOME; MELANIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AEROSOL; APPLICATION SITE EDEMA; APPLICATION SITE ERYTHEMA; APPLICATION SITE FOLLICULITIS; APPLICATION SITE HYPERPIGMENTATION; APPLICATION SITE URTICARIA; ARTICLE; BODY DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATOPHORE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG FORMULATION; ENCAPSULATION; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FACE; FEMALE; HAIR ANALYSIS; HAIR COLOR; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HAIR DYES; HAIR REMOVAL; HIRSUTISM; HUMANS; LASERS; LIPOSOMES; MALE; MELANINS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 34247491488     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000245129.53392.0e     Document Type: Article

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