Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

An overview of clinical and experimental treatment modalities for port wine stains

2012; Elsevier BV; Volume: 67; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jaad.2011.11.938

1097-6787

Jennifer K. Chen, Pedram Ghasri, Guillermo Aguilar, Anne Margreet van Drooge, Albert Wolkerstorfer, Kristen M. Kelly, Michal Heger,

Vascular Malformations and Hemangiomas

Port wine stains (PWS) are the most common vascular malformation of the skin, occurring in 0.3% to 0.5% of the population.Noninvasive laser irradiation with flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye lasers (selective photothermolysis) currently comprises the gold standard treatment of PWS; however, the majority of PWS fail to clear completely after selective photothermolysis.In this review, the clinically used PWS treatment modalities (pulsed dye lasers, alexandrite lasers, neodymium:yttrium-aluminum-garnet lasers, and intense pulsed light) and techniques (combination approaches, multiple passes, and epidermal cooling) are discussed.Retrospective