Safety and efficacy of erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet fractionated laser for treatment of acne scars in type iv to vi skin

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 602-609

  Mahmoud, Bassel H ^a   Srivastava, Divya ^a   Janiga, Jennifer J ^a   Yang, James J ^b   Lim, Henry W ^a   Ozog, David M ^a  

^a Department of Dermatology   (United States)

^b HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERBIUM; YTTRIUM;

ACNE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERBIUM YAG LASER; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE FRACTIONATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCAR FORMATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKIN SCAR; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ACNE VULGARIS; CICATRIX; FACE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951282158     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01513.x     Document Type: Article

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