A randomized investigator-blind trial of different passes of microdermabrasion therapy and their effects on skin biophysical characteristics

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 508-513

  Davari, Parastoo ^a   Gorouhi, Farzam ^a   Jafarian, Sirous ^a   Dowlati, Yahya ^a   Firooz, Alireza ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; MICRODERMABRASION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PH MEASUREMENT; PIGMENT DISORDER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEBUM SECRETION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKIN PERMEABILITY; SKIN SCAR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STRATUM CORNEUM; THERAPY; WATER CONTENT; WRINKLE;

ADULT; DERMABRASION; ELECTRIC CAPACITANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; SEBUM; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN; SKIN AGING; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WATER;

EID: 42449143889     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: 13654632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-4632.2008.03583.x     Document Type: Article

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