Aesthetic dermatology for aging ethnic skin

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 901-917

  Davis, Erica C ^a   Callender, Valerie D ^a,b  

^a Callender Skin and Laser Center   (United States)

^b HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; BOTULINUM TOXIN B; COLLAGEN; EVOLENCE; GLYCOLIC ACID; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDRELLE; HYDROXYAPATITE; JUVEDERM ULTRA; ONABOTULINUMTOXIN A; POLYLACTIC ACID; PREVELLE SILK; RADIESSE; RETINOIC ACID; RIMABOTULINUMTOXIN B; SALICYLIC ACID; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; ULTRA PLUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASIAN; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CAUCASIAN; CERVICAL DYSTONIA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COOLING; CUTANEOUS PARAMETERS; DEPIGMENTATION; DERMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; DERMATOLOGY; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; ERBIUM YAG LASER; ETHNIC GROUP; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GLABELLAR LINE; HUMAN; HYPERHIDROSIS; HYPERTHERMIC THERAPY; INJECTION; INJECTION SITE ERYTHEMA; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT LASER; JAPANESE; KELOID; LASER; LASER SAFETY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MASSAGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MICRODERMABRASION; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEUROMUSCULAR DISEASE; NONHUMAN; OSTEOLYSIS; PATIENT SAFETY; PIGMENT DISORDER; POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; PUNCTURE; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SKIN BRUISING; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN PROTECTION; SKIN SCAR; TISSUE REPAIR; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; WRINKLE;

BOTULINUM TOXINS, TYPE A; CHEMEXFOLIATION; CICATRIX; COLLAGEN; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; DERMABRASION; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; SKIN; SKIN AGING; VISCOSUPPLEMENTS;

EID: 79959823047     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2011.02007.x     Document Type: Review

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