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Extended ablation of actinically damaged epidermis, e.g., with an Ultra Pulse-5000 CO2 laser (Coherent Co.), and also with an Er:YAG laser — so-called laser skin resurfacing — has been established in the last couple of years as an alternative treatment method to mechanical tissue ablation (high-speed dermabrasion). Both the CO2 laser beam with a wave length of 10,600 nm and the Er:YAG laser beam with a wave length of 2,940 nm are preferentially absorbed by water-containing tissue, irrespective of the degree of vascularization or pigmentation of the epidermis. Because of this, all intraepidermal skin alterations such as hyperpigmentation, lentigines, pigmented seborrheic keratoses, actinic keratoses, and, last but not least, actinic cheilitis can be ablated accurately and completely.
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Fratila, A., Sommer, B. (2001). Laser Skin Resurfacing. In: Hanke, C.W., Sommer, B., Sattler, G. (eds) Tumescent Local Anesthesia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56744-5_21
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