Clinical and echographic analysis of ablative fractionated carbon dioxide laser in the treatment of photodamaged facial skin

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2009-2021

  Tierney, Emily P ^a,b   Hanke, C William ^a   Petersen, Jeffrey ^a   Bartley, Ted ^a   Eckert, James R ^a   McCutchen, Carolyn ^a  

^a St Vincent Carmel Hospital   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABLATIVE FRACTIONAL PHOTOTHERMOLYSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PHOTOAGING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARBON DIOXIDE; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FACIAL DERMATOSES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REJUVENATION; SKIN AGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78650002521     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2010.01766.x     Document Type: Article

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