Rough red marks of the face and other sun exposed skin are often lesions known as actinic keratoses, which are an early form of skin cancer.

Sometimes these marks are benign skin growths known as haemangiomas, some of which can occur as tiny red marks, often on the face and hands, which blanche with pressure and are known as spider haemangiomas. These may occur even in children and can be cosmetically troublesome. Other haemangiomas, known as cherry haemangiomas, occur as our skin ages and are commonly seen as small red raised lesions on the skin of the trunk.

Treatments

Red marks consisting of actinic keratoses need to be precisely and surgically removed from the skin by erbium laser treatment, cryotherapy or other means, to prevent the development of deeper skin cancer.

Haemangiomas and other troublesome blood vessel marks and growths can be precisely sealed by vascular laser, using either the precision of copper bromide laser treatment or gentle pulsed dye laser treatment where this is most appropriate.