Prospective Study of Port Wine Stain Treatment with Dye Laser: Comparison of Two Wavelengths (585 nm vs. 595 nm) and Two Pulse Durations (0.5 Milliseconds vs. 20 Milliseconds)

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 168-173

  Greve, Baerbel ^a   Raulin, Christian ^a  

^a LASERKLINIK KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dye laser; Long pulse; Port wine stain; Pulse duration; Wavelength

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULSED DYE LASER; PURPURA; RANDOMIZATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN SCAR; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; PORT-WINE STAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PURPURA; RADIOTHERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1542283658     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20003     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Ashinoff R, Geronemus RG. Flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser for port-wine stains in infancy: Earlier versus later treatment. J Am Acad Dermatol 1991;24:467-472.
2. van der Horst CM, Koster PH, de Borgie CA, Bossuyt PM, van Gemert MJ. Effect of the timing of treatment of port-wine stains with the flash-lamp-pumped pulsed-dye laser. N Engl J Med 1998;338:1028-1033.
3. Katugampola GA, Lanigan SW. Five years' experience of treating port wine stains with the flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser. Br J Dermatol 1997;137:750-754.
4. Morelli JG, Weston WL, Huff JC, Yohn JJ. Initial lesion size as a predictive factor in determining the response of port-wine stains in children treated with the pulsed dye laser. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1995;149:1142-1144.
5. Nguyen CM, Yohn JJ, Huff JC, Weston WL, Morelli JG. Facial port wine stains in childhood: Prediction of the rate of improvement as a function of the age of the patient, size and location of the port wine stain and the number of treatments with the pulsed dye (585 nm) laser. Br J Dermatol 1998;138:821-825.
6. Renfro L, Geronemus RG. Anatomical differences of port-wine stains in response to treatment with the pulsed dye laser. Arch Dermatol 1993;129:182-188.
7. Yohn JJ, Aeling JL, Walsh P, Morelli JG. Lesion size is a factor for determining the rate of port-wine stain clearing following pulsed dye laser treatment in adults. Cutis 1997;59:267-270.
8. Orten SS, Waner M, Flock S, Roberson PK, Kincannon J. Port-wine stains. An assessment of 5 years of treatment. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 1996;122:1174-1179.
9. Wimmershoff MB, Wenig M, Hohenleutner U, Landthaler M. Treatment of port wine stains with the flashlamp pumped pulsed dye laser. Five years of clinical experience. Hautarzt 2001;52:1011-1015.
10. Dierickx CC, Casparian JM, Venugopalan V, Farinelli WA, Anderson RR. Thermal relaxation of port-wine stain vessels probed in vivo: The need for 1-10-millisecond laser pulse treatment. J Invest Dermatol 1995;105:709-714.
11. Fiskerstrand EJ, Svaasand LO, Kopstad G, Ryggen K, Aase S. Photothermally induced vessel-wall necrosis after pulsed dye laser treatment: Lack of response in port-wine stains with small sized or deeply located vessels. J Invest Dermatol 1996;107:671-675.
12. Lanigan SW. Port-wine stains unresponsive to pulsed dye laser: Explanations and solutions. Br J Dermatol 1998;139:173-177.
13. Bencini PL. The multilayer technique: A new and fast approach for flashlamp-pumped pulsed (FLPP) dye laser treatment of port-wine stains (preliminary reports). Dermatol Surg 1999;25:786-789.
14. Chang CJ, Kelly KM, van Gemert MJ, Nelson JS. Comparing the effectiveness of 585-nm vs. 595-nm wavelength pulsed dye laser treatment of port wine stains in conjunction with cryogen spray cooling. Lasers Surg Med 2002;31:352-358.
15. Edstrom DW, Ros AM. The treatment of port-wine stains with the pulsed dye laser at 600 nm. Br J Dermatol 1997;136:360-363.
16. Lou WW, Geronemus RG. Treatment of port-wine stain by variable pulse width pulsed dye laser with cryogen spray: A preliminary study. Dermatol Surg 2001;27:963-965.
17. Scherer K, Lorenz S, Wimmershoff M, Landthaler M, Hohenleutner U. Both the flashlamp-pumped dye laser and the long-pulsed tunable dye laser can improve results in portwine stains. Br J Dermatol 2001;145:79-84.
18. Garden JM, Tan OT, Kerschmann R, Boll J, Furumoto H, Anderson RR, Parrish JA. Effect of dye laser pulse duration on selective cutaneous vascular injury. J Invest Dermatol 1986;87:653-657.
19. van Gemert MJC, Welch AJ, Pickering JW, Tan OT, Gijsbers GH. Wavelengths for laser treatment of port wine stains and telangiectasia. Lasers Surg Med 1995;16:147-155.
20. Kienle A, Hibst R. A new optimal wavelength for treatment of port wine stains? Phys Med Biol 1995;40:1559-1576.
21. Lucassen GW, Verkruysse W, Keijzer M, van Gemert MJC. Light distribution in a port wine stain madel containing multiple cylindrical and curved blood vessels. Lasers Surg Med 1996;18:345-357.
22. Tan OT, Murray S, Kurban AK. Action spectrum of vascular specific injury using pulsed irradiation. J Invest Dermatol 1989;92:868-871.
23. Kelly KM, Nanda VS, Nelson JS. Treatment of port-wine stain birthmarks using the 1.5-msec pulsed dye laser at high fluences in conjunction with cryogen spray cooling. Dermatol Surg 2002;28:309-313.
24. Chang CJ, Nelson JS. Cryogen spray cooling and higher fluence pulsed dye laser treatment improve port-wine stain clearance while minimizing epidermal damage. Dermatol Surg 1999;25:767-772.
25. Greve B, Hammes S, Raulin C. The effect of cold air cooling on 585-nm pulsed dye laser treatment of port wine stains. Dermatol Surg 2001;27:633-636.
26. Nelson JS, Kimel S. Safety of cryogen spray cooling during pulsed laser treatment of selected dermatoses. Lasers Surg Med 2000;26:2-3.
27. Raulin C, Greve B, Hammes S. Cold air in laser therapy: First experiences with a new cooling system. Lasers Surg Med 2001;27:404-410.
28. Waldorf HA, Alster TS, McMillan K, Kauvar AB, Geronemus RG, Nelson JS. Effect of dynamic cooling on 585-nm pulsed dye laser treatment of port wine stain birthmarks. Dermatol Surg 1997;23:657-662.
29. Bernstein EF. Treatment of a resistant port-wine stain with the 1.5-msec pulse duration, tunable, pulsed dye laser. Dermatol Surg 2000;26:1007-1009.
30. Tanghetti E, Sierra RA, Sherr EA, Mirkov M. Evaluation of pulse-duration on purpuric threshold using extended pulse pulsed dye laser (Cynosure V-Star). Lasers Surg Med 2002;31:363-366.