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Therapeutics > Phototherapy > Intense Pulsed Light Therapy

Preferred term

Intense Pulsed Light Therapy  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • coordinate with specific skin disease /ther and/or cosmetic technique; use PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY for intense pulsed light used with PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS and do not index here

Scope note

  • Treatment of the skin with flashlamps of prescribed wavelengths, fluence, and pulse durations which target specific chromophores to induce photothermolysis at specific locations in the skin such as at the HAIR FOLLICLE or SPIDER VEINS.

History note

  • 2013

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URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D062325

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