The treatment of benign skin lesions consists of destruction or removal by any of a wide variety of techniques. The removal of a skin lesion can range from a simple biopsy, scraping or shaving of the lesion, to a radical excision that may heal on its own, be closed with sutures (stitches...
Selectivity of the 308-nm excimer laser, when compared with non-selective narrow-band UVB (NB-UVB) phototherapy allows one to adjust the fluency to the lesion. The excimer laser may also stand superior to NB-UVB in its efficacy of mechanism. The authors concluded that excimer laser is a ...
RCM proved to be a valuable tool for scanning the entire lesion and noninvasively determining the most diagnostically and prognostically significant area to biopsy, which may significantly reduce the risk of sampling error and false-negative rates owing to the increased heterogeneity of the lesions ...