Treatment of resistant port-wine stains with a pulsed dual wavelength 595 and 1064 nm laser: A histochemical evaluation of the vessel wall destruction and selectivity

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 599-605

  Borges Da Costa, João ^a   Boixeda, Pablo ^b   Moreno, Carmen ^b   Santiago, Juan ^b  

^a HOSPITAL DE SANTA MARIA   (Portugal)

^b HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

1064 NM LASERS; DUAL WAVELENGTH; ENZYMATIC ACTIVITIES; HISTOCHEMICAL STUDIES; HYBRID LASERS; LASER PARAMETERS; ND: YAG; PORT WINE STAINS; POST TREATMENT; PULSED DYE LASERS; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT PARAMETERS; VESSEL WALLS; VIABLE CELLS;

BIOPSY; CELL DEATH; CELL MEMBRANES; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DYE LASERS; LASERS; NEODYMIUM; PULSED LASER APPLICATIONS; WINE;

NEODYMIUM LASERS;

NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MALE; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PULSED DYE LASER; SKIN BIOPSY; YAG LASER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD VESSELS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HISTOCYTOCHEMISTRY; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, DYE; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NITROBLUE TETRAZOLIUM; PORT-WINE STAIN;

EID: 69249114661     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2008.2356     Document Type: Article

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