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Laser treatment of port-wine stains
Port-wine stains are a type of capillary malformation affecting 0.3% to 0.5% of the population. Port-wine stains present at birth as pink to erythematous patches on the skin and/or mucosa. Without treatment, the patches typically darken with age and may eventually develop nodular thickening or associated pyogenic granuloma. Laser and light treatments provide improvement through selective destru...
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BACKGROUND Port-wine stains (PWS) are capillary malformations, typically located in the dermis of the head and neck, affecting 0.3% of the population. Current theories suggest that port-wine stains are caused by somatic mutations that disrupt vascular development. OBJECTIVES Understanding PWS genetic determinants could provide insight into new treatments. METHODS Our study used a custom nex...
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BACKGROUND Patients with facial port-wine stains (PWS) often demonstrate oral manifestations of their disorder; however, the spectrum and prevalence of such findings among a cohort of patients with PWS has not been established. As a result, dermatologists and oral health specialists may be uncertain how to counsel their patients with PWS regarding oral hypervascularity, bony oral changes, and o...
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It is important for general practitioners to recognize cutaneous port-wine stains as these could signify important association with Sturge Weber syndrome, where neurological and ocular complications are likely. As importantly, advances in technology in the past two decades have made laser the standard of care for the management of port-wine stains. Port-wine stains are venous ectasias that are ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine
سال: 1987
ISSN: 0141-0768,1758-1095
DOI: 10.1177/014107688708001001