BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE
Tissue effects of vascular lesion laser treatment are incompletely understood. Injury caused by pulsed dye laser (PDL) treatment may result in altered expression of mediators associated with angiogenesis.
MATERIALS AND METHODS
Eight human subjects had one angioma treated with PDL (7 mm, 1.5 millisecond pulse duration, 9 J/cm(2), cryogen spray cooling of 30 millisecond...