Talk:Port-wine stain

Rename?

I'm moving this page back to Naevus flammeus, its technical name - if there are no complaints. Sherurcij ^{(Speaker for the Dead)} 10:23, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

• Oppose Port-wine stain is the well known "common name" while "Naevus flammeus" is the "technical name". It is similar to the Dog article being titled Dog instead of Canis lupus familiaris. Naming conventions favor the most common name recognizable to the average reader. 205.157.110.11 21:56, 27 January 2007 (UTC)

I'm glad that this article has not been re-named. Port Wine Stain is the name it is known as, and it has helped me a lot as it is. There are other types of Naevi and it would just be confusing. https://www.healthline.com/health/nevus. Also I am glad the spelling is as it is, as it helps me find it. ixo (talk) 14:55, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

I removed the listing from Wikipedia:Requested moves#Uncontroversial proposals, because it doesn't seem to be uncontroversial, per the above objection. If you wish to pursue the move, please follow the procedure for possibly controversial page moves. -GTBacchus^(talk) 00:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

I removed the term birthmark and changed it into vascular anomaly--JesBeis (talk) 10:53, 29 October 2011 (UTC)

Notable cases

Any chance cases could be found/listed with notability due to severity? It appears all the cases are attached to the person's fame only and that the actual degree of the condition is minor to moderate.--Oni Ookami Alfador^Talk|@ 13:26, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

Treatment

Change "Chinese people" to people of Asian descent or is it meant as citizens of China?

Outdated

The information about treatments is outdated, it can be pretty effectivly treated by lasers (not 100%), but the chances are higher than described here. There are also not all types of lasers included Jiraci (talk) 11:20, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Etiology

Other than mentioning a gene, this article is more of a How-To than a balanced article on nevus flammeus. What does the gene cause to happen during development? Are persons with this mutation mosaic for the trait? Do certain populations have a higher incidence than others? Is the condition inherited, and at what rate? Does a nevus flammeus change in the course of a patient's life? Is this condition associated with any other traits or medical conditions? A photomicrograph of a section of the skin, showing this condition, would be very illustrative. References of a scientific nature would enable this article to cover the topic more thoroughly. This article is oriented towards parents whose newborn has a nevus flammeus, and ought to be rewritten in a medico-scientific style, because WP is an encyclopedia, not a how-to. --Quisqualis (talk) 19:31, 3 January 2017 (UTC)