RT Book, Section
A1 Hussain, Mussarrat
A1 Kilmer, Suzanne L.
A1 Ibrahimi, Omar A.
A2 Avram, Marc R.
A2 Avram, Mathew M.
A2 Ratner, Désirée
SR Print(0)
ID 1175096184
T1 Laser and Light Treatment of Pigmented Lesions
T2 Procedural Dermatology
YR 2015
FD 2015
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071795067
LK dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175096184
RD 2024/04/24
AB One  of  the  earliest  applications  of  lasers  in  medicine  was  Leon  Goldman’s  use  of  the  ruby  laser  to  treat  pigmented  lesions  in  1963.  At  that  time,  the  ability  of  a  normal-mode  ruby  laser  with  a  0.5  ms  pulse  duration  was  noted  to  selectively  destroy  pigmented  structures  in  the  skin.1  Although  seemingly  ironic  in  hindsight,  the  field  of  laser  dermatology  then  shifted  to  the  use  of  continuous  wave  modalities  such  as  the  carbon  dioxide  laser  (10,600  nm)  and  the  argon  laser  (418  nm),  which  were  used  in  a  non-selective  fashion  to  treat  pigmented  lesions.  Needless  to  say,  the  results  were  often  unpredictable,  with  complications  such  as  scarring  and  dyspigmentation.