Concept information
Preferred term
Intense Pulsed Light Therapy
Type
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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
In other languages
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Finnish
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IPL-hoito
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tehojaksovalohoito
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tehopulssivalohoito
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Swedish
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Intensivt pulserande ljusbehandling
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D062325
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