Abstract:
Achrochordon are common benign skin overgrowths that look like small
pieces of soft hanging skin, and are harmless. They occur mainly in adults.
The individual lesions are black or dark brown,. The skin tags show no
tendency to regress spontaneously and the condition may be cosmetically
undesirable to some patients. .
This is a prospective clinical descriptive, intervention study, aimed to
detect the effect of C02 laser in the treatment of skin tags in some Sudanese
patients. The study was performed at Sudan University of Science and
Technology, Institute of laser, in the laser clinic, in the period from March -
August 2014. Monday and Thursdays were chosen for data collection.
Ten patients (seven females and three males), clinically diagnosed as
having skin tags, have been included, and were considered as the study
population.
All patients were treated with IB-60IB C02 laser system with wavelength
of 10.600nm. All patients received the same laser parameters of CO 2 laser,
using the non contact method, power of 3.5 Watt power, 0.1 second duty
time, 0.1 second idle time. The frequency of treatment was single session
per week for a total of one to two sessions according to the patient need.
Photographs were taken before treatment, immediately after treatment, and
three weeks after the last session to observe the pattern of response to laser
therapy. Most of the patients are females seek removal of skin tags due to
cosmetic concern.
The results showed that all most all patients (100%) were completely cured
without residual complication.
The study concluded that Conclusion C02 laser with 10.600 nm is effective
and safe in treatment of skin tags.
