1064nm Long-pulsed Nd:YAG laser treatment of basal cell carcinoma

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 106-110

  Ortiz, Arisa E ^a,b,c   Anderson, R Rox ^a,b   Avram, Mathew M ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Wellman Center for Photomedicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BCC; Laser therapy; Laser treatment; Nonmelanoma skin cancer; Skin cancer

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEODYMIUM YAG LASER; OPEN STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PURPURA; SCAR FORMATION; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; CLINICAL TRIAL; PATHOLOGY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SOLID STATE LASER; THERAPEUTIC USE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84923652919     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.22310     Document Type: Article

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