some links: laser therapy

I found a couple of links about the argon & c02 lasers. They are used it seems in dermatology & cancer treatment which is good.

http://dermnetnz.org/procedures/lasers.html

The above article says ...

Vascular lesions

Lasers have been used successfully to treat a variety of vascular lesions including superficial vascular malformations (port-wine stains), facial telangiectases, haemangiomas, pyogenic granulomas, Kaposi sarcoma and poikiloderma of Civatte. Lasers that have been used to treat these conditions include argon, APTD, KTP, krypton, copper vapour, copper bromide, pulsed dye lasers and Nd:YAG. Argon (CW) causes a high degree of non-specific thermal injury and scarring and is now largely replaced by yellow-light quasi-CW and pulsed laser therapies.

so that seems to be appropriate for the telangiectases that I have...

I had been prep'd once before when I had treatment in Westmead Private Hospital & thought it was quite funny when they prepared my body with wet towels & the like to minimise the risk of flamability when the laser was in use.... Maybe I imagined it - but this article reminded me of that! (refer "laser safety section"!!!)

The other articles are also interesting, btw.

http://www.massey.vcu.edu/cancer/?pid=1532

http://cancer.stanford.edu/information/cancerTreatment/methods/laser/