Autologous cultured melanocytes in vitiligo treatment

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1027-1036

  Czajkowski, Rafal ^a   Placek, Waldemar ^a   Drewa, Tomasz ^a   Kowaliszyn, Bogna ^b   Sir, Jan ^c   Weiss, Wioletta ^a  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c Centrum Onkologii im prof F Lukaszczyka w Bydgoszcz   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORHEXIDINE ACETATE; NEOMYCIN; PSORALEN; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CELL CULTURE; CELL THERAPY; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOTHERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MELANOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; VITILIGO; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; NOTE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 34548359124     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2007.33216.x     Document Type: Article

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