Letter: Therapy of calcinosis cutis using erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser treatment

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 727-728

  Meissner, Markus ^a   Ochsendorf, Falk ^a   Kaufmann, Roland ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

POVIDONE IODINE;

ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EPITHELIZATION; ERBIUM YAG LASER; HUMAN; LETTER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN CALCIFICATION; SYNDROME CREST; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VAPORIZATION; WOUND DRESSING; CALCINOSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; SKIN DISEASE; SOLID STATE LASER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CALCINOSIS; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77951291082     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01539.x     Document Type: Letter

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