Photodynamic therapy does not prevent cutaneous squamous-cell carcinoma in organ-transplant recipients: Results of a randomized-controlled trial

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 569-574

  De Graaf, Ymke G L ^a   Kennedy, Cornelis ^a   Wolterbeek, Ron ^a   Collen, Annemie F S ^a   Willemze, Rein ^a   Bavinck, Jan N Bouwes ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PREDNISONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FOREARM; GRAFT RECIPIENT; GRAFT REJECTION; HAND; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; KERATOSIS; MALE; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PAIN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN CARCINOMA; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SKIN; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 32844462131     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700098     Document Type: Article

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