Treatment of Diffuse Planar Xanthoma of the Face after One Session of 1,444-nm Neodymium-Doped Yttrium Aluminium Garnet Laser
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Vol. 27, No. 6, 2015 769 Received December 2, 2014, Revised January 14, 2015, Accepted for publication February 5, 2015 Corresponding author: Il-Hwan Kim, Department of Dermatology, Korea University Ansan Hospital, 123 Jeokgeum-ro, Danwon-gu, Ansan 15355, Korea. Tel: 82-31-412-5986, Fax: 82-31-412-5985, E-mail: kumcihk@ korea.ac.kr This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Fig. 1. Plane xanthoma. Yellowish maculopapular lesions had spread over the entire face. http://dx.doi.org/10.5021/ad.2015.27.6.769
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