Pulsed dye laser treatment of paediatric port wine stains—variation of practice in the UK (NHS)
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Pulsed dye laser therapy for port-wine stains in children.
The port-wine stain is a disfiguring vascular birthmark that commonly occurs on the face. Amelioration of this condition in children was difficult or impossible until the introduction of the flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser in the late 1980s. This article provides an interdisciplinary social and ethical examination of pulsed dye laser therapy for port-wine stain in childhood. Specific issues r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Lasers in Medical Science
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0268-8921,1435-604X
DOI: 10.1007/s10103-016-1890-2