Natural color system--a new method for evaluating skin colors during argon laser treatment of port-wine stain.
In the natural color system (NCS) the notations are based on psychometric experiments and give a cognitive description of color appearance. It is shown by clinical examples that the NCS is a useful method for evaluating laser treatment results, and that NCS also makes it possible to express the results in numerical values in 2 ways.
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
Jurell
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Tonnquist
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003119:Color Perception Tests / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012015:Reference Standards; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D012880:Skin Pigmentation