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Aesthetic Medical Treatment in Taiwan
#10-4. Intense Pulsed Light in Taiwan

Traditionally, vascular tumors are treated with the pulsed dye and argon tunable dye lasers with variable results since vascular lesions may lie deeply in the dermis. Besides, these therapeutics may leave scars and produce marked purpura with subsequent hyperpigmentation. With the aid of different cut-off filters, the optimal wavelength spectrum can be filtered out to correspond to the absorption behavior and the depth of the target structure. The pulse duration of IPL systems can be set to be lower than the thermal relaxation time of the target structure so that the surrounding tissue is not damaged. Cheng-Sheng Chiu et al. reported an adult case of tufted angioma, with unusual presentation as annular plaques, which was alleviated after treatment with IPL. They used a 560 nm cut-off filter and a fluence of 40 J/cm2 to deliver a 2.8-ms and 6.0-ms pulse in double mode with…

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