Ablative fractional lasers (CO2 and Er:YAG): A randomized controlled double-blind split-face trial of the treatment of peri-orbital rhytides

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 160-167

  Karsai, Syrus ^a   Czarnecka, Agnieszka ^a   Jünger, Michael ^b   Raulin, Christian ^a,c  

^a LASERKLINIK KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative study; Fractional photothermolysis; Laser surgery; Skin aging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PERIORBITAL RHYTIDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WRINKLE; YAG LASER;

ADULT; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; ESTHETICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, GAS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERENCE VALUES; REJUVENATION; RHYTIDOPLASTY; SKIN AGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77249154614     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20879     Document Type: Article

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