Laser scar revision: A review

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-140

  Alster, Tina ^a   Zaulyanov Scanlon, Larissa ^b  

^a WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF DERMATOLOGIC LASER SURGERY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLEACHING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; FLUOROURACIL; HYDROQUINONE; ISOTRETINOIN; KOJIC ACID; LIDOCAINE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ACNE; ANESTHESIA; CARBON DIOXIDE LASER; CELL PROLIFERATION; COLLAGEN METABOLISM; CREAM; ECZEMA; ERBIUM YAG LASER; FIBROBLAST; GAUZE DRESSING; GEL; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; HYPERTROPHIC SCAR; KELOID; LASER; LASER SURGERY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAST CELL; NEODYMIUM LASER; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; PSORIASIS; PULSED DYE LASER; PURPURA; REOPERATION; RETINA INJURY; REVIEW; SCAR; SCAR FORMATION; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN INFECTION; SKIN INFLAMMATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VERRUCA VULGARIS; WOUND HEALING;

CICATRIX; COSMETIC TECHNIQUES; FACE; HUMANS; LASER SURGERY;

EID: 33846794921     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2006.33030.x     Document Type: Review

References (46)

1. Baum CL, Arpey CJ. Normal cutaneous wound healing: clinical correlation with cellular and molecular events. Dermatol Surg 2005;31:674-86.
2. Lawrence WT. Physiology of the acute wound. Clin Plast Surg 1998;25:321-40.
3. Monaco JL, Lawrence WT. Acute wound healing: an overview. Clin Plast Surg 2003;30:1-12.
4. Alster TS. Laser treatment of scars and striae. In: Alster TS, Manual of cutaneous laser techniques. Philadelphia:Lippincott-Raven; 2000:p. 89-107.
5. Macedo O, Alster TS. Laser treatment of darker skin tones: a practical approach. Dermatol Ther 2000;13:114-26.
6. 2 laser resurfacing: an evaluation of 500 patients. Dermatol Surg 1998;24:315-20.
7. Horton S, Alster TS. Preoperative and postoperative considerations for cutaneous laser resurfacing. Cutis 1999;64:399-406.
8. Zachariae H. Delayed wound healing and keloid formation following argon laser treatment or dermabrasion during irotretinoin treatment. Br J Dermatol 1988;118:703-6.
9. Khatri KA. Diode laser hair removal in patients undergoing isotretinoin therapy. Dermatol Surg 2004;30:1205-7.
10. Alster TS, Tanzi EL. Hypertrophic scars and keloids: etiology and management. Am J Clin Dermatol 2003;4:235-43.
11. McCraw JB, McCraw JA, McMellin A, Bettancourt N. Prevention of unfavorable scars using early pulsed dye laser treatments: a preliminary report. Ann Plast Surg 1999;42:7-14.
12. Bowes LE, Alster TS. Treatment of facial scarring and ulceration resulting from acne excoriée with 585-nm pulsed dye laser irradiation and cognitive psychotherapy. Dermatol Surg 2004;30:934-8.
13. Nouri K, Jimenez GP, Harrison-Balestra C, Elgart GW. 585-nm pulsed dye laser in the treatment of surgical scars starting on the suture removal day. Dermatol Surg 2003;29:65-73.
14. Pinheiro AL, Pozza DH, Oliveira MG, et al. Polarized light (400-2000 nm) and non-ablative laser (685 nm): a description of the wound healing process using immunohistochemistry analysis. Photomed Laser Surg 2005;23:485-92.
15. Kuo YR, Jeng SF, Wang FS, et al. Flashlamp pulsed dye laser (PDL) suppression of keloid proliferation through down-regulation of TGF-beta1 expression and extracellular matrix expression. Lasers Surg Med 2004;34:104-8.
16. Reiken SR, Wolfort SF, Berthiamume F, et al. Control of hypertrophic scar growth using selective photothermolysis. Lasers Surg Med 1997;21:7-12.
17. Alster TS, Williams CM. Improvement of keloid sternotomy scars by the 585nm pulsed dye laser: a controlled study. Lancet 1995;345:1198-200.
18. Alster TS, Nanni CA. Pulsed dye laser treatment of hypertrophic burn scars. Plast Reconstr Surg 1998;102:2190-5.
19. Alster TS. Laser scar revision: comparison of pulsed dye laser with and without intralesional corticosteroids. Dermatol Surg 2002;29:25-9.
20. Manuskiatti W, Fitzpatrick RE. Treatment response of keloidal and hypertrophic sternotomy scars: comparison among intralesional corticosteroid, 5-fluorouracil, and 585-nm flashlamp-pumped pulsed-dye laser treatments. Arch Dermatol 2002;138:1149-55.
21. Bellew SG, Weiss MA, Weiss RA. Comparison of intense pulsed light to 585-nm long-pulsed pulsed dye laser for treatment of hypertrophic surgical scars: a pilot study. J Drugs Dermatol 2005;4:448-52.
22. Apfelberg DB, Maser MR, White DN, Lash H. Failure of carbon dioxide laser excision of keloids. Lasers Surg Med 1989;9:382-88.
23. 2 and erbium: YAG laser: preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative considerations. Plast Reconstr Surg 1999;103:619-32.
24. Alster TS, Tanzi EL. Laser skin resurfacing: ablative and nonablative. In: Robinson J, Sengelman R, Siegel DM, Hanke CM, editors. Surgery of the skin. Philadelphia:Elsevier, 2005. p. 611-24.
25. Alster TS, West TB. Resurfacing atrophic facial scars with a high-energy, pulsed carbon dioxide laser. Dermatol Surg 1996;22:151-5.
26. 2 laser resurfacing of atrophic scars. Dermatol Surg 1999;25:926-30.
27. Tanzi EL, Alster TS. Treatment of atrophic facial acne scars with a dual-mode Er: YAG laser. Dermatol Surg 2002;28:551-5.
28. Alster TS, Nanni CA, Williams CM. Comparison of four carbon dioxide resurfacing lasers: a clinical and histopathologic evaluation. Dermatol Surg 1999;25:153-9.
29. 2 laser resurfacing. Semin Cutan Med Surg 1996;15:189-93.
30. 2 laser skin resurfacing: a comparison of scanned and pulsed systems. J Am Acad Dermatol 1997;37:709-18.
31. 2 laser, erbium: YAG laser, and blended lasers: a 4- to 6-month prospective histologic and clinical study. Lasers Surg Med 2000;27:362-72.
32. Alster TS. Clinical and histological evaluation of six erbium: YAG lasers for cutaneous resurfacing. Laser Surg Med 1999;24:87-92.
33. Fitzpatrick RE, Tope WD, Goldman MP, Satur NM. Pulsed carbon dioxide laser laser, trichloroacetic acid, Baker-Gordon phenol, and dermabrasion: a comparative clinical and histologic study of cutaneous resurfacing in a porcine model. Arch Dermatol 1996;132:469-71.
34. Fitzpatrick RE, Rostan EF, Marchell N. Collagen tightening induced by carbon dioxide laser versus erbium: YAG laser. Lasers Surg Med 2000;27:395-403.
35. Alster TS, Lupton JR. Prevention and treatment of side effects and complications of cutaneous laser resurfacing. Plast Reconstr Surg 2002;109:308-16.
36. 2 laser resurfacing infection rate with and without prophylactic antibiotics. Dermatol Surg 1999;25:857-61.
37. Alster TS, Nanni CA. Famciclovir prophylaxis of herpes simplex virus reactivation after cutaneous laser resurfacing. Dermatol Surg 1997;25:242-6.
38. Beeson WH, Rachel JD. Valacyclovir prophylaxis for herpes simplex virus infection or infection recurrence following laser skin resurfacing. Dermatol Surg 2002;28:331-6.
39. Fisher AA. Lasers and allergic contact dermatitis to topical antibiotics, with particular reference to bacitracin. Cutis 1996;58:252-4.
40. Tanzi EL, Alster TS. Comparison of a 1450 nm diode laser and a 1320 nm Nd:YAG laser in the treatment of atrophic facial scars: a prospective clinical and histological study. Dermatol Surg 2004;30:152-7.
41. Rogachefsky AS, Hussain M, Goldberg DJ. Atrophic and mixed pattern of acne scars with a 1320 nm Nd:YAG laser. Dermatol Surg 2003;29:904-8.
42. Friedman PM, Jih MH, Skover GR, et al. Treatment of atrophic facial acne scars with the 1064-nm Q-switched Nd:YAG laser. Arch Dermatol 2004;140:1337-41.
43. Friedman PM, Skover GR, Payonik G, et al. 3D in-vivo optical skin imaging for topographical quantitative assessment of non-ablative laser technology. Dermatol Surg 2002;28:199-204.
44. Manstein D, Herron GS, Sink RK, et al. Fractional photothermoloysis: a new concept for cutaneous remodeling using microscopic patterns of thermal injury. Lasers Surg Med 2004;34:426-38.
45. Alster TS, Tanzi EL, Lazarus M. The use of fractional laser photothermolysis for the treatment of atrophic scars. Dermatol Surg 2007;33 (in press).
46. Greenbaum SS, Rubin MG. Surgical pearl: the high-energy pulsed carbon dioxide laser for immediate scar resurfacing. J Am Acad Dermatol 1999;40:998-1000.