Photodynamic therapy of non-melanoma skin cancer with methyl aminolaevulinate is associated with less pain than with aminolaevulinic acid

Acta Dermato-Venereologica

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 173-175

  Gaál, Magdolna ^a   Otrosinka, Sylwia ^a   Baltás, Eszter ^a   Ócsai, Henriette ^a   Oláh, Judit ^a   Kemény, Lajos ^a   Gyulai, Rolland ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID METHYL ESTER; PARACETAMOL;

ADULT; AGED; CANCER PAIN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; NOCICEPTION; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SKIN CANCER; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BOWEN'S DISEASE; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; EXTREMITIES; FEMALE; HEAD; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TORSO;

EID: 84859567310     PISSN: 00015555     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-1223     Document Type: Letter

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