Improving the treatment of port wine stain birthmarks

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 143-144

  Lanigan, Sean W ^a  

^a CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; SKIN BLOOD VESSEL; SKIN HEMANGIOMA; TREATMENT DURATION;

EID: 34547799820     PISSN: 15721000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2007.07.004     Document Type: Editorial

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