Efficacy of punch elevation combined with fractional carbon dioxide laser resurfacing in facial atrophic acne scarring: A randomized split-face clinical study

Indian Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 473-478

  Faghihi, Gita ^a   Nouraei, Saeid ^a   Asilian, Ali ^a   Keyvan, Shima ^a   Abtahi Naeini, Bahareh ^a   Rakhshanpour, Mehrdad ^b   Nilforoushzadeh, Mohammad ^c   Hosseini, Sayed ^d  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b AJA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Acne scars; fractional carbon dioxide laser; punch elevation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATROPHIC SKIN DISEASE; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATOLOGICAL PROCEDURE; DERMATOLOGIST; FACE DISORDER; FACIAL ATROPHIC ACNE SCAR; FEMALE; FRACTIONAL CARBON DIOXIDE LASER RESURFACING; HUMAN; IRANIAN (CITIZEN); LASER SAFETY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; PUNCH ELEVATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCAR FORMATION; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN PRURITUS; SKIN SCAR; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84941564482     PISSN: 00195154     EISSN: 19983611     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5154.159616     Document Type: Article

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