Split-face comparison of intense pulsed light with short- and long-pulsed dye lasers for the treatment of port-wine stains

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 720-727

  Babilas, Philipp ^a   Schreml, Stephan ^a   Eames, Tatiana ^a   Hohenleutner, Ulrich ^a   Szeimies, Rolf Markus ^a   Landthaler, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

flashlamp pumped; lasers; port wine stain; pulsed dye laser

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INTENSED PULSE LIGHT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LASER; MALE; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCAR FORMATION; SCHOOL CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DYE LASER; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, DYE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORT-WINE STAIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952279497     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20964     Document Type: Article

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