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Angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia (ALHE) is a rare, benign vascular tumor. Although its etiology is not clearly known, infection, hormonal factors, and trauma are the suspected reasons. There are few cases considered to be related to pregnancy described in the literature. Granulomas are rarely seen in the histopathology and only four patients with granulomas have been described. Herein, we will present a 28-year-old woman who has been pregnant three times; in every pregnancy, she developed pink nodular lesions on the back of her ear. In the first two pregnancies, the lesions had appeared during the pregnancy and regressed completely in the postpartum period. In her third pregnancy, the condition emerged again and lasted 1.5 years after birth of her child. Histopathology exhibited ALHE with granulomas. Although the relationship between ALHE and pregnancy is already known, there are few cutaneous ALHE cases associated with pregnancy reported in the literature. This association is further supported by this case having recurrent ALHE during each pregnancy period. Also, the presence of naked granuloma in histopathology, unlike most of the cases, contributes to the current histopathological data.

A port-wine stain (PWS) is a congenital capillary malformation that is seen in 0.3-0.5% of newborns. Although many types of lasers have been used to treat PWSs, few studies have investigated the efficacy of 577-nm Pro-Yellow lasers. The aim of this study was to establish the efficacy of Pro-Yellow lasers in PWS treatment. In total, 26 patients, comprising 15 females (57.7%) and 11 males (42.3%) with a mean age of 24.7 ± 11.8 (range 1-50) years were included in the study. All were treated with a 577-nm Pro-Yellow laser at 4-week intervals, 3-10 times. The sessions initially used scan mode and a fluence dose of 24 J/cm 2 per session, on average. The mean dose was increased by 4 J/cm each session and the maximum dose administered was 44 J/cm 2 . A mean regression of 68.8 ± 13.9% in the size of the lesions over 5.23 ± 2.7 sessions was observed. There was no statistically significant difference between the female and male patients when they were compared in terms of the number of treatment sessions (p = .789) and treatment success (p = .39). These case series demonstrate that the Pro-Yellow laser is a safe and well-tolerated treatment for PWSs. However, deep-seated lesions required more treatment sessions and it was observed that clinically the lesions did not completely disappear., (© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.)