δ-aminolevulinic acid and blue light photodynamic therapy for treatment of multiple basal cell carcinomas in two patients with nevoid basal cell carcinoma syndrome

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 1054-1061

  Itkin, Aleksandr M ^a,b   Gilchrest, Barbara A ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; IMIQUIMOD;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; BLUE LIGHT; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; BASAL CELL NEVUS SYNDROME; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 3042696425     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2004.30317.x     Document Type: Article

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