Ambulatory photodynamic therapy using low irradiance inorganic light-emitting diodes for the treatment of non-melanoma skin cancer: An open study

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 235-239

  Ibbotson, Sally Helen ^a   Ferguson, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ambulatory; Efficacy; Inorganic light emitting diode; Irradiance; Non melanoma skin cancer; Pain; Photodynamic therapy

Indexed keywords

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; BOWEN DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; OPEN STUDY; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; BOWEN'S DISEASE; CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84865594451     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: 16000781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2012.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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