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Evaluation of Port-Wine Stains and Its Treatment

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Port-wine stains (PWSs) are cosmetically disfiguring, congenital capillary and venular malformations that affect 0.3–0.5 % of newborns (Jacobs and Walton 1976; Lorenz et al. 2000). The lesions are most frequently located on the face (often in a trigeminal dermatomal distribution) and the neck, which cannot disappear spontaneously. At birth, lesions are first noted as subtle, light pink patches. Delayed or inadequate treatment may result in nodularity, hypertrophy, and soft tissue overgrowth, causing dysmorphism, asymmetry, and occasional spontaneous bleeding (Kira et al. 2009). These changes in color and contour are attributed to progressive ectasia of the abnormal dermal vascular plexus. So it is essential to treat PWS as early as possible and maintain treatment to prevent the development of vascular nodules and hypertrophy in later years.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, No.1 Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China

    Yuanhong Li

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  1. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France

    Philippe Humbert

  2. Center for Study and Research on the Integuments, Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France

    Ferial Fanian

  3. Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA

    Howard I. Maibach

  4. Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Besançon, Besançon, France

    Pierre Agache

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Li, Y. (2017). Evaluation of Port-Wine Stains and Its Treatment. In: Humbert, P., Fanian, F., Maibach, H., Agache, P. (eds) Agache's Measuring the Skin. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32383-1_83

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