Main description:

Lasers in Dermatology presents an excellent and complete survey of the numerous applications of lasers in dermatological therapy and research, the fundamentals of laser-skin interaction, and the various laser sources and tools in use. A comprehensive outlook to new instrumentation, such as pulsed lasers of ultraviolet and infrared wavelengths, completes this up-to-date overview, which is indispensable not only to practitioners and clinical researchers in dermatology but also to engineers and laser physicists in biomedicine.

Contents:

The Role of Skin Optics in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Uses of Lasers.- Photodynamic Therapy in the Treatment of Diseases of the Skin.- The CO2 Laser in Dermatotherapy.- The Argon Laser in Dermatotherapy.- Dye Laser for Benign Cutaneous Vascular Lesions: Clinical and Technical Development.- The Neodymium YAG Laser in Dermatology.- Treatment of Deep Located Haemangiomas with the Nd: YAG Laser (1064nm).- Argon Laser Treatment of Port-Wine Stains and Quantitative Evaluation by Reflected Subject Color Analysis.- Fundamentals of Pulsed UV and Mid-infrared Laser Skin Ablation.- The ArF Excimer Laser in Dermatology.- Pulsed UV and Mid-infrared Laser Skin Ablation: Experimental and First Clinical Results.- The Short Pulse Dye Laser in the Treatment of Port-Wine Stains.- Future Aspects of Lasers in Dermatology.- Index of Contributors.