title: [Clinical application of photodynamic therapy combined with non-coherent light (red light) for treatment of port-wine stains].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This is to report the clinical application of photodynamic therapy (PDT) combined with non-coherent light (red light) for the treatment of port wine stains (PWS).
  
  
  METHODS
  Eleven cases with PWS have been treated with PDT combined with non-coherent light since Dec. 1995.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The facial lesions of PWS in the 11 cases disappeared completely without any scarring.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  PDT combined with red light that has strong skin-penetrating ability and irradiation just after intravenous injection of photosensitizing drugs are effective to embolize the malformative vasculature in pink lesions, especially in dark purple lesions and purple lesions with proliferation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plastic Surgery, Changhai Hospital, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ouyang
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Cheng
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xing
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008027:Light; D008297:Male; D010778:Photochemotherapy; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D019339:Port-Wine Stain / Q000188:drug therapy*
chemical_list: D017319:Photosensitizing Agents