An update on lasers in children

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 499-504

  Cordisco, Maria Rosa ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL DE PEDIATRÍA PROF DR JUAN P GARRAHAN   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Benzoporphyrin derivative; Neodymium yttrium aluminum garnet; Photodynamic therapy; Port wine stain; Pulsed dye laser; Rapamycin; Thermal relaxation time

Indexed keywords

IMIQUIMOD; RAPAMYCIN;

ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; ARGON LASER; BECKER NEVUS; ECZEMA; ERBIUM YAG LASER; GOLD STANDARD; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTRICHOSIS; KELOID; LASER SURGERY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PULSED DYE LASER; REVIEW; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN SURGERY; YAG LASER;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DERMATOLOGY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; NEVUS; PORT-WINE STAIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949192629     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e32832e084f     Document Type: Review

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