Role of laser therapy in pediatric patients

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 124, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Burns, A Jay ^a,b   Navarro, J Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFE AU LAIT SPOT; CHILD; CONGENITAL NEVUS; ERBIUM YAG LASER; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; LYMPHATIC MALFORMATION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; REVIEW; SCAR; SCHOOL CHILD; SEBACEOUS NEVUS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; VEIN MALFORMATION;

CAFE-AU-LAIT SPOTS; CHILD; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LASER COAGULATION; LASER THERAPY; LASERS; LASERS, DYE; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; NEVUS; PORT-WINE STAIN; RETREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBEROUS SCLEROSIS; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS;

EID: 68049086807     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181aa0f1c     Document Type: Review

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