Unsuccessful treatment of recalcitrant cutaneous discoid lupus erythematosus with photodynamic therapy

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 156-158

  Romero Maté, Alberto ^a   Castaño Suárez, Esther ^a   García Donoso, Carmen ^a   Martínez Morán, Cristina ^a   Meseguer Yebra, Carmen ^a   Borbujo, Jesús ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE FUENLABRADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Discoid lupus erythematosus; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; AZATHIOPRINE; CYCLOSPORIN; DAPSONE; ETRETIN; PIMECROLIMUS; PREDNISONE; SILK SES; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ABSENCE OF SIDE EFFECTS; ADULT; APPLICATION SITE PUSTULE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FACE EDEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RED LIGHT; STEROID THERAPY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, DISCOID; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, DISCOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954065701     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: 16000781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2010.00506.x     Document Type: Article

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