Treating scars: Addressing surface, volume, and movement to expedite optimal results. Part 2: More-severe grades of scarring

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1310-1321

  Goodman, Greg J ^a,b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SKIN AND CANCER FOUNDATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS; BLEOMYCIN; BOTULINUM TOXIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CYTOTOXIC AGENT; DERMAL FILLER; FLUOROURACIL; HYALURONIC ACID; HYDROXYAPATITE; MITOMYCIN; POLYLACTIC ACID; SILICON; TRICHLOROACETIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CHEMICAL PEELING; CROSS TECHNIQUE; DERMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERBIUM YAG LASER; FACE MUSCLE; FAT TRANSFER; FOCAL NONAUTOLOGOUS TISSUE AUGMENTATION; FRACTIONAL NONABLATIVE LASER; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; KELOID; LASER SURGERY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; PLASMA SKIN RESURFACING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCAR; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN ATROPHY; SKIN SURFACE; SKIN SURGERY; SUBCISION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT PLANNING;

CICATRIX; HUMANS;

EID: 84864630907     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2012.02439.x     Document Type: Article

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