Combined use of intense pulsed light and Q-switched ruby laser for complex dyspigmentation among Asian patients

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 128-133

  Jong, Min Park ^a   Tsao, Hensin ^a   Tsao, Sandy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Asian; Dyspigmentation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CHLOASMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX DYSPIGMENTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INFLAMMATION; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT; KOREAN; LASER; LENTIGINOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTOTHERAPY; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q SWITCHED RUBY LASER; RATING SCALE; SAFETY; SEBORRHEIC KERATOSIS;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERPIGMENTATION; KOREA; LASER THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40449095638     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20603     Document Type: Article

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