Pruritis
Pulsed dye laser therapy can resolve untreatable pruritis in ALHE patients
Published in Blood Weekly, December 25th, 2003
According to a study from Japan, "a 48-year-old Japanese woman with ALHE was successfully treated with a flashlamp pulsed dye laser (585 nm, 450 mus pulse duration). The lesion was severely pruritic and had been enlarging slowly for 2 years but was resistant to conventional therapies, including topical, intralesional, and systemic corticosteroid, and cryotherapy.
"The severe pruritis immediately improved after the first treatment using the pulsed dye laser. The erythema and papules gradually improved without...
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Source: Blood Weekly (2003-12-25)
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