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Fractional Photothermolysis for Involuted Infantile Hemangioma
Hans-Joachim Laubach, MD;
Richard Rox Anderson, MD;
Thomas Luger, MD;
Dieter Manstein, MD
Arch Dermatol. 2009;145(7):748-750.
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REPORT OF A CASE
An otherwise healthy 14-year-old white girl presented to our dermatologic laser clinic with a protruding tumor above the right nasolabial fold. The patient's parents reported that the patient had a fast-growing red tumor during the first months after birth in the same area. The lesion at that time was diagnosed as infantile hemangioma by the pediatrician, and no further intervention was carried out. The skin lesion spontaneously resolved over the following years leaving the residual skin changes. The skin lesion had remained unchanged for the last 4 years without further improvement in appearance.
Physical examination revealed a protruding subcutaneous tumor, abnormally lax overlying skin with several linear indentations, and a soft atrophic scarlike surface texture (Figure 1A and Figure 2A). Several telangiectasias were discernable within the skin lesion and in its immediate surrounding skin. . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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AUTHOR INFORMATION
Klinik und Poliklinik für Haut- und Geschlechtskrankheiten, Universität Münster, Münster, Germany (Drs Laubach and Luger); Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston (Drs Laubach, Anderson, and Manstein)
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