Ablative laser resurfacing: high-energy pulsed carbon dioxide and erbium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 462-473

  Riggs, Karen ^a   Keller, Matthew ^a   Humphreys, Tatyana R ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; ERBIUM; FLUOROURACIL; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; YTTRIUM;

ACANTHOLYTIC DYSKERATOSIS; ACNE; ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CHROMATOPHORE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DARIER DISEASE; EPIDERMIS; ESTHETIC SURGERY; EYELID RECONSTRUCTION; HAILEY HAILEY DISEASE; HAMARTOMA; HEATING; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFRARED RADIATION; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; PHOTOAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ABSORPTION; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SCAR; SKIN ABSORPTION; SKIN CANCER; SKIN INJURY; SKIN SURGERY; THERMAL INJURY; VAPORIZATION; YAG LASER;

COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, GAS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; REJUVENATION; SKIN; SKIN AGING; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN PIGMENTATION; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 34548538373     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2007.07.003     Document Type: Article

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