In vivo microscopic approaches for facial melanocytic lesions after quality-switched ruby laser therapy: Time-sequential imaging of melanin and melanocytes of solar lentigo in Asian skin

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 1138-1147

  Yamashita, Toyonobu ^a   Negishi, Kei ^b   Hariya, Takeshi ^a   Yanai, Motohiro ^a   Iikura, Tomio ^a   Wakamatsu, Shingo ^b  

^a SHISEIDO RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^b TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMAN; IN VIVO STUDY; JAPANESE; LASER; LENTIGO; MELANOCYTE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY SWITCHED RUBY LASER; SKIN PIGMENTATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ADULT; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; COHORT STUDIES; DERMOSCOPY; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LENTIGO; MELANINS; MELANOCYTES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954551884     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01598.x     Document Type: Article

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