A pilot split-face study comparing conventional methyl aminolevulinate- photodynamic therapy (PDT) with microneedling-assisted PDT on actinically damaged skin

Dermatologic Surgery

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1197-1201

  Torezan, Luís ^a   Chaves, Yuri ^a   Niwa, Ane ^a   Sanches Jr , José A ^a   Festa Neto, Cyro ^a   Szeimies, Rolf Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Klinikum Vest   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEVULINIC ACID METHYL ESTER;

ACTINIC KERATOSIS; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; FACE DISORDER; FACE EDEMA; FACE ERYTHEMA; FACE PAIN; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; MALE; MICRONEEDLE; PATIENT SAFETY; PHOTODYNAMIC THERAPY; PIGMENTATION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN DEFECT; WRINKLE;

AGED; AMINOLEVULINIC ACID; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATOSIS, ACTINIC; LASERS, GAS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; SKIN NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84881390629     PISSN: 10760512     EISSN: 15244725     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/dsu.12233     Document Type: Article

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