Successful treatment of toenail onychomycosis with photodynamic therapy

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 19-21

  Watanabe, Daisuke ^a   Kawamura, Chiharu ^a   Masuda, Yuko ^a   Akita, Yoichi ^a   Tamada, Yasuhiko ^a   Matsumoto, Yoshinari ^a  

^a AICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ESTER DERIVATIVE; ITRACONAZOLE; METHYL ESTER; TERBINAFINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UREA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSULTATION; FEMALE; FOOT; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SJOEGREN SYNDROME; TOENAIL ONYCHOMYCOSIS;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; NAILS; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38549172228     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archdermatol.2007.17     Document Type: Article

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