Clinical experience in the treatment of different vascular lesions using a neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1933-1941

  Civas, Ekrem ^a   Koc, Erol ^b   Aksoy, Berna ^c   Aksoy, Hasan Mete ^d  

^a Civas Clinic   (Turkey)

^b GULHANE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^c Dermatology Clinic   (Turkey)

^d Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Clinic   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURN; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN DEFECT; SWELLING; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VASCULAR LESION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, DYE; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES; VASCULAR DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 72349086673     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01355.x     Document Type: Article

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