Update on Lasers and Light Devices for the Treatment of Vascular Lesions

Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 276-284

  Galeckas, Kenneth J ^a  

^a WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LASER; LEG VEIN; LIGHT; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; POIKILODERMA; PULSED DYE LASER; TELANGIECTASIA; VASCULAR DISEASE; YAG LASER;

HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, DYE; PHOTOTHERAPY; SKIN DISEASES, VASCULAR;

EID: 58149358781     PISSN: 10855629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sder.2008.08.002     Document Type: Article

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