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Congenital skin loss following Nd:YAG placental photocoagulation

C A Stone1, M W Quinn, P J Saxby

  • 1Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, UK.

This is the first reported case of congenital skin loss following endoscopic placental laser coagulation, a new technique for the ante-natal treatment of twin-twin transfusion syndrome. The skin defect healed rapidly after birth with dressings alone, mimicking the spontaneous re-epithelialisation of a minor burn wound or aplasia cutis congenita.

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