Effective Treatment of Congenital Melanocytic Nevus and Nevus Sebaceous Using the Pinhole Method with the Erbium-Doped Yttrium Aluminium Garnet Laser
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Vol. 26 No. 5, 2014 651 Received August 7, 2013, Revised September 17, 2013, Accepted for publication October 8, 2013 Corresponding author: Sung Eun Chang, Department of Dermatology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 138-736, Korea. Tel: 82-2-30103467, Fax: 82-2-486-7831, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://dx.doi.org/10.5021/ad.2014.26.5.651
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