Recalcitrant vulvar lichen sclerosis treated with aminolevulinic acid-photodynamic therapy: A report of five cases

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 22, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1398-1399

  Sotiriou, E ^a   Apalla, Z ^a   Patsatsi, A ^a   Panagiotidou, D ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; CELLOPHANE; CORTICOSTEROID; PIMECROLIMUS; STEROID; TACROLIMUS;

BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LETTER; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MENOPAUSAL SYNDROME; PAIN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RADIATION DOSE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN ATROPHY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

AGED; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; VULVAR LICHEN SCLEROSUS;

EID: 53749091683     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2008.02661.x     Document Type: Letter

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