An overview of clinical and experimental treatment modalities for port wine stains

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 289-304.e29

  Chen, Jennifer K ^a   Ghasri, Pedram ^a   Aguilar, Guillermo ^b   Van Drooge, Anne Margreet ^c   Wolkerstorfer, Albert ^c   Kelly, Kristen M ^a   Heger, Michal ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Academic Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

angiogenesis inhibitors; epidermal cooling; hypobaric pressure; immunomodulators; photodynamic therapy; pulsed dye laser; site specific pharmaco laser therapy; superficial vascular and capillary malformations

Indexed keywords

HEMATOPORPHYRIN; IMIQUIMOD; PLACEBO; RAPAMYCIN;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ALEXANDRITE LASER; ANGIOSARCOMA; ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONDYLOMA ACUMINATUM; COOLING; ERYTHEMA; HUMAN; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT; KAPOSI SARCOMA; LASER; LASER COAGULATION; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; NEODYMIUM LASER; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; NONHUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOTOXICITY; PIGMENT DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; PYOGENIC GRANULOMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESTENOSIS; SCAR FORMATION; SITE SPECIFIC PHARMACOLASER THERAPY;

EID: 84863981397     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2011.11.938     Document Type: Review

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