Photodynamic therapy with methyl aminolevulinate induces phototoxic reactions on areas of the nose adjacent to basal cell carcinomas and actinic keratoses

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1145-1148

  Toll, Agustí ^a   Parera, Ma Elisabet ^a   Vélez, Mariano ^a   Pujol, Ramon M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID METHYL ESTER; IMIQUIMOD; PROTOPORPHYRIN; PSEUDOMONIC ACID; DRUG DERIVATIVE; METHYL 5-AMINOLEVULINATE; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CHEMOSURGERY; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FLUORESCENCE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LETTER; NOSE TUMOR; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOTOXICITY; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN DEFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CONTACT DERMATITIS; KERATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; DERMATITIS, PHOTOTOXIC; HUMANS; KERATOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE NEOPLASMS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS;

EID: 48449094912     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2008.34232.x     Document Type: Letter

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