• Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH)
is a frequent concern when treating SL in darker skin types.
Cryotherapy using CryoPen is a simple and practical therapy for SL considering the following instructions:
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Select your candidate: A typical candidate for treatment has multiple, brown, well defined, small
and homogenous color lesions with no history of significant post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation.
2-
Perform a spot test by treating one lesion, and evaluate the result in three weeks.
3-
Apply sunscreen and use whitening cream for darker skin types for 3 weeks before and after treatment.
Further side-effects
• Edemas
• Bleeding
• Pain and syncope
• Insufflation of subcutaneous tissue
• Retraction caused by freezing next to orifices
• Cartilage defect during treatment of the nose or the ear
• Infection
• Conjunctival ectopy due to treatments of the eyelid
• Milia
• Depressed or atrophic scars
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