Aminolevulinic Acid Photodynamic Therapy for Actinic Keratoses/Actinic Cheilitis/Acne: Vascular Lasers

Dermatologic Clinics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-33

  Alexiades Armenakas, Macrene ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID METHYL ESTER; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ORAL CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; PORPHYRIN;

ACNE VULGARIS; ACTINIC CHEILITIS; ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ARGON LASER; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BLISTER; BLUE LIGHT; CHEILITIS; CLINICAL TRIAL; ERYTHEMA; ESTHETICS; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT; LASER; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; LIGHT; NEODYMIUM LASER; PHOTOACTIVATION; PHOTOAGING; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; RED LIGHT; REVIEW; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EDEMA; SKIN PAIN; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACNE VULGARIS; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; CHEILITIS; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 33751191666     PISSN: 07338635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.det.2006.09.003     Document Type: Review

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