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ARNO LESHIN, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm Syphilol. 1953;68(2):208-209.

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The following report presents a physical method of obliterating a birthmark, or port-wine stain, of the face by intradermal injection of permanent pigments by tattooing. This method was reported by Conway¹ and is executed with the Conway Dermajector, an electrical tattooing machine. I believe that this is a definite improvement in the treatment of certain capillary hemangiomas, the flat port-wine stains due to subdermal and dermal capillary invasion which cause a marked purplish discoloration of the skin through a normal epidermis. Other physical methods, such as electrodesiccation, irradiation, and application of solid carbon dioxide are often not successful, and if successful may leave a thin atrophic skin., which condition may be worse than the original lesion. This method of tattooing pigment over the nevus can give a better result than surgical excision of a large hemangioma which has to be replaced by a skin graft from a distant area of the body, which skin does not match the rest of the face . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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CHICAGO

From the Department of Maxillo-Facial Surgery, Michael Reese Hospital.

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