Combined benzoporphyrin derivative monoacid ring photodynamic therapy and pulsed dye laser for port wine stain birthmarks

Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy

Volumn 6, Issue 3-4, 2009, Pages 195-199

  Tournas, Joshua A ^a,b   Lai, Jennifer ^a,c   Truitt, Anne ^a,b   Huang, Y C ^a   Osann, Kathryn E ^b   Choi, Bernard ^a,b,d   Kelly, Kristen M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d University of California at Irvine   (United States)

Author keywords

Photodynamic therapy; Port wine stain birthmarks; Pulsed dye laser; Vascular birthmarks

Indexed keywords

VERTEPORFIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; INJECTION SITE EXTRAVASATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; NEVUS FLAMMEUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; PURPURA; SKIN EXAMINATION; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASERS, DYE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PORPHYRINS; PORT-WINE STAIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70449678427     PISSN: 15721000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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