Selected Applications of Technology in the Pediatric Dermatology Office

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 94-100

  Ducharme, Erin E ^a   Silverberg, Nanette B ^a  

^a ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

dermoscopy; nevi; photodynamic therapy; pulsed dye laser; spitz nevus; vitiligo; warts; wood's lamp

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COOLING; DEPIGMENTATION; DERMATOLOGY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HEALTH CENTER; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; IN VIVO STUDY; JUVENILE MELANOMA; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; MELANOCYTIC NEVUS; MELANOMA; MYCOSIS; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHYSICS; PIGMENT DISORDER; PORPHYRIA; PULSED DYE LASER; SCABIES; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN INFECTION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VERRUCA VULGARIS;

CHILD; DERMATOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS' OFFICES; SKIN DISEASES; TECHNOLOGY, MEDICAL;

EID: 43249091317     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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