Treatment of earlobe keloids by extralesional excision combined with preoperative and postoperative "sandwich" radiotherapy

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 135-141

  Stahl, Shy ^a,b,c   Barnea, Yoav ^a,b,c   Weiss, Jerry ^a,b,c   Amir, Aharon ^a,b,c   Zaretski, Arik ^a,b,c   Leshem, David ^a,b,c   Miller, Ehud ^a,b,c   Shafir, Raphael ^a,b,c   Ben Yosef, Rami ^a,b,c   Gur, Eyal ^a,b,c  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b Tel Aviv Sourasky   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY PIERCING; CHILD; EXTERNAL EAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; KELOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY PIERCING; CHILD; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EAR, EXTERNAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KELOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75149193274     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0b013e3181c2a46e     Document Type: Article

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