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The Ewha Medical Journal
Ewha Womans University School of Medicine

Ewha Med J 1992; 15(3):223-228

pISSN: 1598-7450

DOI: https://doi.org/10.12771/emj.1992.15.3.223

Original Article

A Study on the Effect of Nevus Flammeus Treatment by Flashlamp Pumped Pulsed Dye Laser

Chee Won Oh*, Jeong Hee Hahm

Copyright ⓒ 1992. Ewha Womans University School of Medicine. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Published Online: Jul 24, 2015

Abstract

Ninety patients(average age 18 years 10 months) with nevus flammeus were treated with the flashlamp pumped pulsed dye laser(Candela Laser Corp., Wayland, Mass., SPTL-1). With an average of 3 treatments, more than 75% lightening was achieved in 36 patients(40.0%), 50% to 75% lightening in 42 patients(46.7%), 25% to 50% lightening in 6 patients(6.7%), and less than 25% lightening in 6 patients(6.7 %), The percentage of lightening was increased as the number of treatments increased. The overall more than 50% lightening was achieved in 7 patients(l00%) of pink lesion treated, in 44 patients(89.8%) of red lesion treated, and in 27 patients(79.4%) of purple lesion treated.

There were complications such as cutaneous hyperpigmentations in 21 patients(23.3 %), hypopigmentations in 3 patients(3.3%). and atrophic scar in 1 patient(1.l%). All complications were transient and disappeared completely.