When not to treat cutaneous vascular lesions with the pulsed dye laser

The availability of effective laser treatment for cutaneous vascular lesions has risen dramatically in recent years. At the same time, there has been a proliferation of laser providers with varying amounts of training—both medical and nonmedical. We report a series of four cases where patients prese...

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التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
المؤلف الرئيسي: Tannous, Zeina (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Lipworth, Adam (author), Shoofner, Joshua D. (author), Avram, Mathew M. (author)
التنسيق: article
منشور في: 2011
الوصول للمادة أونلاين:http://hdl.handle.net/10725/6573
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/lsm.21119
http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/lsm.21119/full
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الملخص:The availability of effective laser treatment for cutaneous vascular lesions has risen dramatically in recent years. At the same time, there has been a proliferation of laser providers with varying amounts of training—both medical and nonmedical. We report a series of four cases where patients presented for cosmetic evaluation of vascular lesions and were discovered to have more significant pathologic disease. In presenting these cases, we hope to illuminate a basic differential diagnosis that exists for cutaneous vascular lesions and remind healthcare providers that not all “cosmetic” concerns are benign in origin. There is a differential diagnosis that exists for cutaneous vascular lesions that is worth reviewing, and it should be considered in all patients presenting for laser treatment. Lasers Surg. Med. © 2011 Wiley-Liss, Inc.