Argon Laser Treatment of Benign Gutaneous Lesions

Its Application and Limitations

Abstract

Recently, it has become clear that limitations of argon laser therapy in the treatment of benign cutaneous lesions, because some grades of scarring complication were always occured after the argon laser therapy. The latest application and limitations of argon laser treatment were discussed.
1. Generally the argon laser must not apply to the lightening of abnormal coloring of port wine stains because of surface scarring. Especially in the cases of children and females under the age of thirty-years old, prominent scarring is always occured.
2. The argon laser may only apply to the cases with cavernous elevated changes of port wine hemangioma over the age of thirty-years old.
3. The argon laser may also apply to the small benign cutaneous lesions under the size of 3cm-diameters, because scarring is not so prominent in these small lesions. It is applicable to the cases with teleangiectasias, elevated or flat small pigmented lesions such as nevocellular nevi, nevi spilus and senile pigmented macules.