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Photodynamic therapy: a better treatment for widespread Bowen's disease
Author(s) -
ROBINSON P.J.,
CARRUTH J.A.S.,
FAIRRIS G.M.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
british journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.304
H-Index - 179
eISSN - 1365-2133
pISSN - 0007-0963
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2133.1988.tb07101.x
Subject(s) - photodynamic therapy , bowen's disease , medicine , surgery , photosensitivity , disease , dermatology , pathology , basal cell , chemistry , physics , organic chemistry , quantum mechanics
SUMMARY We report here the use of photodynamic therapy to treat two patients with multiple lesions of Bowen's disease. A total of over 500 lesions were treated, less than 10% requiring two treatments, and at follow‐up 6 months later no lesions remained in either patient. The only important side‐effect of treatment was a marked photosensitivity reaction. We consider photodynamic therapy an efficient treatment for Bowen's disease; multiple lesions can be treated in a short treatment session, without local anaesthesia, and healing occurs within 2 weeks.