Need for physician monitoring of long-term safety with lasers and intense pulsed light

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 210-211

  Burkhart, Craig G ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF OHIO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANIN;

APPLICATION SITE PAIN; ARTICLE; BLISTER; DNA DAMAGE; EDEMA; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD; EROSION; ERYTHEMA; FOLLICULITIS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT THERAPY; IONIZING RADIATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MELANOCYTE; MELANOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONNEL RADIATION MONITORING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PHYSICIAN; PURPURA; PUVA; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIATION PROTECTION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN DISEASE; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; PHOTOTHERAPY; RISK; SAFETY; TIME;

EID: 34247638479     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2007.03088.x     Document Type: Article

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