International clinical recommendations on scar management;Internationale klinische empfehlungen zur narbenbehandlung

Zentralblatt fur Chirurgie

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 296-306

  Ziegler, Ulrich E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hypertrophic scar; Keloid; Scar therapy

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; SILICONE GEL; TRIAMCINOLONE ACETONIDE; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ALGORITHM; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPRESSION THERAPY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXCISION; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT TECHNOLOGY; KELOID; LASER SURGERY; META ANALYSIS; NEODYMIUM LASER; PIGMENT DISORDER; PULSED DYE LASER; REVIEW; SCAR; SKIN ATROPHY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TECHNOLOGY; TELANGIECTASIA; TREATMENT INDICATION; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; FOLLOW UP; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LASER; PILOT STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIATION DOSE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; ALGORITHMS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BLEOMYCIN; CICATRIX; CICATRIX, HYPERTROPHIC; CRYOTHERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; KELOID; LASERS; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SILICONE GELS; TIME FACTORS; TRIAMCINOLONE;

EID: 7244239170     PISSN: 0044409X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-822830     Document Type: Review

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