BACKGROUND Among the different approaches for improving the effectiveness in the treatment of Capillary Malformations type Port Wine Stain (CM type PWS) are the intense pulsed light sources. There are few clinical studies prove useful in the treatment of CM. Furthermore, no studies have been published yet demonstrating the histological effects of IPL in CM. OBJECTIVES To assess the histologic...

a 48 year old Indian male presented with a painless swelling of the right upper limb since birth associated with an overlying discolouration involving the right chest wall. at presentation, he complained of increased sweating and a tingling sensation over the involved limb. Clinical examination revealed a port wine stain over the right upper limb and hemithorax extending from the base of the ne...

The phakomatoses have been traditionally defined as a group of hereditary diseases with variable expressivity characterized by multisystem tumors with possible malignant transformation. The Sturge-Weber syndrome, Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, and the phakomatosis pigmentovascularis have the facial port-wine stain in common. Numerous pathophysiogenetic mechanisms have been suggested such as venous...

The association of a vascular lesion with melanocytic nevi was first described by Ota et, al in 1947, and given the name phakomatosis pigmentovascularis(PPV). Later on this term was used for the cases with simultaneous occurrence of congenital vascular and pigmented (epidermal or melanocytic) anomalies. Our first case is a 12-year-old Kuwaiti boy who had extensive port-wine stain (nevus flammeu...

As a kind of congenital vascular malformations, Port Wine Stain (PWS) is composed of ectatic venular capillary blood vessels buried within healthy dermis. In clinic, Pulsed Dye Laser (PDL) in visible band (e.g. 585 or 595 nm) together with cryogen spray cooling has become the golden standard for treatment of PWS. However, due to the limited energy penetration depth of the PDL, deeply buried blo...

Purpose Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS) is a neurocutaneous disorder characterized by facial cutaneous venous dilatation (port-wine stain), leptomeningeal angioma, and ocular abnormalities. Here we report a case of SWS who experienced acute primary angle-closure in the same side of the nevus flammeus. Observations A 64-years-old female patient with SWS port wine stain on the left side of her face...

BACKGROUND The increase in the number of laser treatments has led to an increase in the number of therapy-related adverse effects. Herein we report a case in which long-term adverse effects occurred after periorbital laser treatment of a treatment-resistant port-wine stain using a long-pulsed alexandrite laser without protective eyewear. OBSERVATIONS A 33-year-old woman with a therapy-resista...