Inflammatory linear verrucous epidermal nevus (IL VEN) is a benign hyperplasia of the epidermis of unknown cause that most commonly occurs on the lower extremities.l ? The lesion usually appears in early childhood and is persistent and pruritic. Treatments for ILVEN have been associated with high rates ofrecurrence and/or scarring. This is the first report of successful treatment of ILVEN with ...

A pulsed tunable dye laser has been described which can generate intense, highly monochromatic, tunable radiation throughout the visible spectrum. Pumped by a nitrogen laser, it achieves bandwidths of less than 0.004 Angstroms with the help of a diffraction grating in Littrow mount together with an intracavity beam expanding telescope and a tilted Fabry Perot interferometer. [The SCI indicates ...

Experimental evidence is presented that shows that the conical emission often found surrounding a near-resonant laser beam after it passes through an atomic vapor is due to nondegenerate four-wave mixing enhanced by the ac Stark effect. We demonstrate self-trapping of a pulsed dye-laser beam in sodium vapor for wavelengths 0.04 to 10 A shorter than that of the D(2) resonance and show that the f...

No particular regimen is considered standard therapy for widespread metastatic melanoma, although surgery is the primary choice for regional nodal metastases. Systemic interleukin-2 (IL-2) is an effective immunotherapy for melanoma, but standard doses are associated with severe toxicity. We report a patient who was treated with intralesional low-dose IL-2 and V-beam pulsed dye laser for the tre...

Multiple light sources can be used for photodynamic therapy (PDT) with good results, but there are few comparative studies. This study compares the efficacy of treatment of basal cell carcinoma with PDT and two light sources, the non-coherent red light and pulsed dye laser 595 nm. In this small pilot study red light is more effective, but many more studies are needed to draw definitive conclusi...

Warts are benign epithelial neoplasms of the skin and mucosa resulting from human Papilloma virus (HPV) infection. They are a common dermatologic complaint, with an estimated incidence of 10% in children and young adults [1]. The treatment is challenging and there is no single therapy established as completely curative [2]. In this report we presented a case of successfully removed resistant pl...

Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2008;99:493-501 494 application of 1% atropine has produced a response in some patients,8 but not in others.5,7 Other treatments include the use of CO2 lasers or pulsed dye laser,9 destruction using electrodesiccation with a fine needle electrode, and injections of botulinum toxin.10 In cases where there was an underlying disorder such as hyperthyroidism, resolution of the...

A laser photochemical process is introduced to realize superhydrophobic conducting carbon coatings with broccoli-type hierarchical morphology for use as a metal-free counter electrode in a dye sensitized solar cell. The process involves pulsed excimer laser irradiation of a thin layer of liquid haloaromatic organic solvent o-dichlorobenzene (DCB). The coating reflects a carbon nanoparticle-self...

Three-dimensional mapping of atmospheric atomic mercury has been performed with lidar techniques, to our knowledge, for the first time. Industrial pollution monitoring, as well as measurements of background concentrations, is reported. High-efficiency frequency doubling of narrowband pulsed dye laser radiation was employed to generate intense radiation at the mercury UV resonance line. Field me...

Warts are benign epithelial neoplasms of the skin and mucosa resulting from human Papilloma virus (HPV) infection. They are a common dermatologic complaint, with an estimated incidence of 10% in children and young adults [1]. The treatment is challenging and there is no single therapy established as completely curative [2]. In this report we presented a case of successfully removed resistant pl...