Case report of phototherapy for a clinical port wine lesion.

Port wine lesions have been a difficult problem for plastic surgeons to treat effectively. This article will offer a new way to treat the port wine lesion with intense pulse light, and will give an example of a very difficult port wine lesion and the results that this particular method can achieve. A 39-year-old, with a lesion along the V1, V2 trigeminal distribution, was treated with eight treatments over a span of ten months. The patient was never treated before for this lesion and now desired treatment due to nodularity and bleeding. This patient had a very good response to therapy and had no side effects. He had minimal difficulty tolerating the treatment as time went on, although he originally needed local anesthetic for pain control around the treatment area.