The effect of increasing fluence on the treatment of actinic keratosis and photodamage by photodynamic therapy with 5-aminolevulinic acid and intense pulsed light

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 427-432

  Haddad, Alessandra ^a,b   Santos, Ivan Dunshee De Abranches Oliveira ^a   Gragnani, Alfredo ^a   Ferreira, Lydia Masako ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5-AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADVERSE EFFECT; AFTER-TREATMENT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROL GROUPS; CUT-OFF; FLUENCES; INTENSE PULSED LIGHT; NON-PARAMETRIC TEST; PHOTO-DAMAGE; PHOTOREJUVENATION; POST TREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENT; SKIN CONDITIONS; STATISTICAL EVALUATION; TREATMENT GROUP;

LIGHT PULSE GENERATORS; PHOTOGRAPHY; PLASMONS; RATING;

PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN; SUNLIGHT;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SKIN; SUNLIGHT;

EID: 79958741135     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2009.2733     Document Type: Article

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