Intralesional cryotherapy for treatment of keloid scars: A prospective study

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 580-589

  Van Leeuwen, Michiel C E ^a   Van Der Wal, Martijn B A ^a   Bulstra, Anne Eva J ^a   Galindo Garre, Francisca ^a   Molier, Jonneke ^a   Van Zuijlen, Paul P M ^a   Van Leeuwen, Paul A M ^a   Niessen, Frank B ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG THERAPY; NITROGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BLACK PERSON; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICES; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INTRALESIONAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KELOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEEDLE; NETHERLANDS; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PRURITUS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN PIGMENTATION; THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; COMPLICATIONS; CRYOSURGERY; ETIOLOGY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPIGMENTATION; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; INSTRUMENTATION; KELOID; MALE; METHODS; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDLES; NETHERLANDS; NITROGEN; PAIN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PRURITUS; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN PIGMENTATION; THERAPEUTIC USE; THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964270615     PISSN: 00321052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000000911     Document Type: Article

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