Comparison of stacked pulses versus double-pass treatments of facial acne with a 1,450-nm laser

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 552-559

  Uebelhoer, Nathan S ^a,b   Bogle, Melissa A ^a,c   Dover, Jeffrey S ^a,d,e   Arndt, Kenneth A ^a,d,e,f   Rohrer, Thomas E ^a,g  

^a SkinCare Physicians of Chestnut Hill   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE LASER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; MALE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SKIN SCAR;

ACNE VULGARIS; ADULT; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; MALE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247505874     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.33113.x     Document Type: Article

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