Combined therapy using Q-switched ruby laser and bleaching treatment with tretinoin and hydroquinone for periorbital skin hyperpigmentation in Asians

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 282-288

  Momosawa, Akira ^a   Kurita, Masakazu ^a   Ozaki, Mine ^a   Miyamoto, Shinpei ^a   Kobayashi, Yo ^a   Ban, Izumi ^a   Harii, Kiyonori ^a  

^a KYORIN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING AGENT; GENTAMICIN; HYDROQUINONE; MELANIN; RETINOIC ACID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BLEACHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INFORMED CONSENT; JAPANESE; LASER; MALE; MELANOCYTOSIS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN BIOPSY;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; EYELIDS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROQUINONES; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER THERAPY; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OINTMENTS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TRETINOIN;

EID: 38049067525     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.prs.0000293869.00522.ec     Document Type: Article

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