Treatment of nail disorders with Lllt (Part I): Twenty Nail Dystrophy, Green Nail and Longitudinal Ridges with Distal Interphalangeal (Dip) Joint Arthritis

Laser Therapy

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 73-78

  Shoji, Akinobu ^a   Inoue, Akiko ^a  

^a Osaka Kaisei Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

distal interphalangeal (DIP) arthritis; GaAlAs diode laser therapy; green nail; longitudinal ridges; twenty nail dystrophy

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243154657     PISSN: 08985901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5978/islsm.10.73     Document Type: Article

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