title: Treatment of periorbital port-wine stains with the flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser.
abstract: Sixty-seven patients with periorbital port-wine stains were treated with the flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser at a wavelength of 577 or 585 nm and a pulse-width of 450 microseconds. A retrospective analysis of the efficacy of this treatment was performed by qualitative and quantitative comparison of simultaneously projected pretreatment and post-treatment photographs and by comparison of photographs with a visual analog scale. These periorbital port-wine stains were treated with good-to-excellent results in 95% of the patients. As a result of treatment, macular (ie, nonhypertrophic) lesions, were lightened by an average of 80%. Neither scarring nor permanent pigmentary alteration was noted. Children of all ages were treated without adverse consequences, and the results were comparable to those of adults. The flashlamp-pumped pulsed dye laser treatment of periorbital port-wine stains is effective and safe in patients of all ages and should be considered the treatment of choice for flat and mildly hypertrophic lesions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, New York University Medical Center, NY 10016.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Holy
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Geronemus
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005153:Facial Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D053685:Laser Therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009915:Orbit; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome