Confocal microscopy insights into the treatment and cellular immune response of basal cell carcinoma to photodynamic therapy

Dermatology

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 264-270

  Longo, Caterina ^a   Casari, Alice ^b   Pepe, Patrizia ^b   Moscarella, Elvira ^a,b   Zalaudek, Iris ^a   Argenziano, Giuseppe ^a   Pellacani, Giovanni ^b  

^a S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Basal cell carcinoma; Photodynamic therapy; Reflectance confocal microscopy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASAL CELL CARCINOMA; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER THERAPY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CYTOLOGY; EPILUMINESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LANGERHANS CELL; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CARCINOMA, BASAL CELL; DERMOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; MALE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SKIN NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84873088494     PISSN: 10188665     EISSN: 14219832     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000345106     Document Type: Article

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