Verrucous epidermal nevus (VEN) successfully treated with indocyanine green (ICG) photodynamic therapy (PDT)

A Recalcitrant Keloid Successfully Treated With CO2 Laser and Indocyanine Green Photodynamic Therapy.

A 74-year-old man visited the department for a cutaneous lesion with intermittent pruritus on his back. The lesion developed 9 years ago after an epidermal cyst had been excised. On physical examination, the authors observed a 5 · 2 cm, erythematous, firm, and well-demarcated mass on the back (Figure 1A). A skin biopsy from the lesion showed excessive collagen formations with reduced vascularit...

Colocalization of Vitiligo and Verrucous Epidermal Nevus: A Simulator of Depigmented Variant of Verrucous Epidermal Nevus

Vitiligo, an autoimmune disorder, is known to co-localize with other immunological disorders like lichen planus and psoriasis. However, there are no reports regarding the co-localization of an autoimmune disorder (vitiligo) and a developmental disorder (verrucous epidermal nevus). We hereby present a 10-month-old infant who was visited for white patches on the right buttock and adjoining antero...

Photodynamic therapy (PDT)

Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a comparatively novel therapeutic method involving a safe light source and a light-sensitive substance, termed as photosensitizers (PSs), such as methylene blue (MB), toluidine blue (TBO), sulfonated aluminum phthalocyanine, chlorine derivatives, nontoxic indocyanine green (ICG), and curcumin (CUR). (1) The combination of a nontoxic PS with low-intensity visible li...

Retina: indocyanine green (ICG) angiography.

Bilateral inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus

Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (ILVEN) is a unilateral skin disorder which usually manifests in infancy or childhood. Female predominance, frequent leg involvement, pruritus, resistance to treatment, and a psoriasiform histologic pattern are other common characteristics of this disease. Atypical presentations of ILVEN have been described and include late onset in life, wide...