Burns
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 15-24 , February 2005

Erbium:YAG laser treatment of post-burn scars: potentials and limitations

  • Aletta Eberlein

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, Cologne City Hospital, Teaching Hospital of University of Witten-Herdecke, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Hadrian Schepler

      Affiliations

    • Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery, Klinikum Lüdenscheid, Teaching Hospital of University of Bonn, Paulmannshöher Str. 14, 58515 Lüdenscheid, Germany
    • ,
  • Gerald Spilker

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, Cologne City Hospital, Teaching Hospital of University of Witten-Herdecke, Ostmerheimer Str. 200, 51109 Cologne, Germany
    • ,
  • Peter Altmeyer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dermatology, Ruhr-University of Bochum, St. Josef-Hospital, Gudrunstr. 56, 44791 Bochum, Germany
    • ,
  • Bernd Hartmann

      Affiliations

    • Department of Plastic Surgery and Burn Center, Unfallkrankenhaus Berlin, Warener Str. 7, 12683 Berlin, Germany

,Accepted 1 June 2004.

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PII: S0305-4179(04)00168-8

doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2004.06.004

Burns
Volume 31, Issue 1 , Pages 15-24 , February 2005

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