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Photoaging

A prospective, randomized, double-blind comparison of an ablative fractional 2940-nm erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet laser with a nonablative fractional 1550-nm erbium-doped glass laser for the treatment of photoaged Asian skin

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Pages 551-557 | Received 11 Jun 2014, Accepted 28 Oct 2014, Published online: 29 Sep 2015

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