Letter: Punctate leucoderma after 1,064-nm Q-switched neodymium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser with low-fluence therapy: Is it melanocytopenic or melanopenic?

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1790-1791

  Kim, Taegyun ^a   Cho, Sung Bin ^a   Oh, Sang Ho ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSORALEN;

ADULT; CASE REPORT; CHEEK; CHLOASMA; ERBIUM YAG LASER; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LETTER; LEUKODERMA; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NEODYMIUM DOPED YTTRIUM ALUMINUM GARNET LASER; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PUNCTATE LEUCODERMA; RADIATION ENERGY; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN DEFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITILIGO; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SOLID STATE LASER;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSIS;

EID: 78149236609     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01751.x     Document Type: Letter

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