Lasers in Dermatology Proceedings of the International Symposium, Ulm, 26 September 1989

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.

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.