755-nm alexandrite laser epilation as an adjuvant and primary treatment for pilonidal sinus disease

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 430-432

  Abbas, Ossama ^a   Sidani, Mustafa ^a   Rubeiz, Nelly ^a   Ghosn, Samer ^a   Kibbi, Abdul Ghani ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; ALEXANDRITE LASER EPILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLICULITIS; GRANULATION TISSUE; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; PILONIDAL SINUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; METHODOLOGY; REOPERATION; SOLID STATE LASER;

ADULT; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; PILONIDAL SINUS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77749233933     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2009.01465.x     Document Type: Letter

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