Photodynamic therapy for distal and lateral subungual toenail onychomycosis caused by Trichophyton rubrum: Preliminary results of a single-centre open trial

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 216-217

  Sotiriou, Eleni ^a   Koussidou Ermonti, Thalia ^b   Chaidemenos, George ^b   Apalla, Zoi ^a   Ioannides, Demetris ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Hospital for Skin and Venereal Diseases   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; BLISTER; BURNING SENSATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; EDEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNGUS IDENTIFICATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PAIN; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOENAIL ONYCHOMYCOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TRICHOPHYTON RUBRUM;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; FEMALE; FOOT DERMATOSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ONYCHOMYCOSIS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICHOPHYTON;

EID: 77950294172     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0811     Document Type: Letter

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