Treatment of leg veins with the long pulse dye laser using variable pulse durations and energy fluences

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-67

  Kono, Taro ^a   Yamaki, Takashi ^a   Erçöçen, Ali Riza ^b   Fujiwara, Osamu ^a   Nozaki, Motohiro ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CUMHURIYET UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Asians; Laser surgery; Leg veins; Long pulsed dye laser; Telangiectasia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COOLING; DEVICE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENERGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LASER SURGERY; LEG VARICOSIS; LONG PULSED DYE LASER; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TELANGIECTASIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4043104064     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20035     Document Type: Article

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