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Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 253607, 5 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/253607
Case Report

Intense Pulsed-Light Therapy for Proliferative Haemangiomas of Infancy

Marie Caucanas, Philippe Paquet, Frédérique Henry, Claudine Piérard-Franchimont, Marie-Annick Reginster, and Gérald E. Piérard

Department of Dermatopathology, University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium

Received 4 November 2011; Accepted 10 December 2011

Academic Editors: J. T. Lear and N. Oiso

Copyright © 2011 Marie Caucanas et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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