Acne scars in ethnic skin treated with both non-ablative fractional 1,550nm and ablative fractional CO 2 lasers: Comparative retrospective analysis with recommended guidelines

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 787-791

  Alajlan, Abdulmajeed M ^a   Alsuwaidan, Sami N ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

acne; dark; melasma; pigmentation; reticular; scars; skin

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; HYDROQUINONE;

ABLATIVE FRACTIONAL CARBON DIOXIDE LASER THERAY; ACNE; ACNE SCAR; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CHLOASMA; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; ERBIUM YAG LASER; ERYTHEMA; HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPOPIGMENTATION; LASER SAFETY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NON ABLATIVE FRACTIONAL LASER THERAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; POSTINFLAMMATORY HYPERPIGMENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCAR;

ACNE VULGARIS; CICATRIX; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; LASERS, GAS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 80053515420     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.21092     Document Type: Article

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