Cutaneous rhodotorula treated with photodynamic therapy

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 38, Issue 7 PART 1, 2012, Pages 1100-1103

  Means, Alexander D ^a   Sisto, Krisanne ^b   Lichon, Vanessa ^b   Monaghan, Diana ^b   O'Keefe, Paul ^b   Tung, Rebecca ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; FLUCONAZOLE; ITRACONAZOLE; KETOCONAZOLE; SALICYLIC ACID; SHAMPOO; VORICONAZOLE;

ACANTHOSIS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUE LIGHT; CASE REPORT; CHEMICAL PEEL TECHNIQUE; CUTANEOUS FUNGAL INFECTION; HUMAN; MALE; MYCOSIS; PARAKERATOSIS; PERIODIC ACID SCHIFF STAIN; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED DYE LASER; RHODOTORULA; RHODOTORULA INFECTION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN CARE; SKIN INFECTION;

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; DERMATOMYCOSES; HUMANS; LASERS, DYE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; RHODOTORULA; SALICYLIC ACID;

EID: 84863715626     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1524-4725.2012.02373.x     Document Type: Article

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