Successful treatment of disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis with Q-switched ruby laser.
Porokeratosis, a cutaneous disorder that is characterized histologically by the presence of a "cornoid lamella", is a progressive disease with limited therapeutic modalities. We report a case of a 61-year-old man suffering from disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis, one of the clinical types of porokeratosis, treated with Q-switched ruby laser, commonly used for the treatment of pigmented skin diseases. The laser therapy provided striking improvement and no clinical recurrence was noted.
Itoh
Munenari
M
Department of Dermatology, Jikei University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan. seafowl@jikei.ac.jp
Nakagawa
Hidemi
H
D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017499:Porokeratosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*