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GRAPEVINE, TEX. -- Treatment with a pulsed dye laser is safe and effective for clearing port-wine stains in children aged younger than 2 years, according to two independent studies presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.
In the first study, all 49 of the treated patients were aged 6 months or younger.
"Our high clearance rates were likely due to the lesions being proportionately small, and the skin [being] thin. This may allow better penetration of the laser into the lesion," said Dr. Anne M. Chapas, a dermatologist in private practice in New York, reporting on the series of infants who were all treated for facial port-wine stain.
"We achieved a remarkable clearance rate" in these patients, she said.
She reported on a review...
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