During the last 5 years, 640 patients had treatment to their port wine stains (PWS) with a flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser. One hundred and fifty-six patients have been discharged for varying reasons, of which 59 (38%) achieved excellent (at least 75%) lightening of their birthmark. Of the remaini
Recurrence of port-wine stains after treatment with the flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser
โ Scribed by S. Michel; M. Landthaler; U. Hohenleutner
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 289 KB
- Volume
- 143
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0007-0963
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## SUMMARY Previous studies assessing the treatment of portโwine stains (PWS) with the 585 nm pulsed dye laser have relied on either subjective clinical assessment or __in vivo__ measurement of skin colour alone. The aim of the present retrospective study was to develop an objective method of asses