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[Photodynamic therapy: new indications].
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is approved for the treatment of actinic keratoses, superficial and nodular basal cell carcinomas, and recently, Bowen's disease. In the last decade the advances experienced in the study of the photodynamic reaction have expanded the spectrum of application to other cutaneous diseases, neoplastic as well as inflammatory and infectious ones. The experience in psoriasis...
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Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a comparatively novel therapeutic method involving a safe light source and a light-sensitive substance, termed as photosensitizers (PSs), such as methylene blue (MB), toluidine blue (TBO), sulfonated aluminum phthalocyanine, chlorine derivatives, nontoxic indocyanine green (ICG), and curcumin (CUR). (1) The combination of a nontoxic PS with low-intensity visible li...
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Melanoma is the most dangerous form of skin cancer, with a steeply rising incidence and a poor prognosis in its advanced stages. Melanoma is highly resistant to traditional chemotherapy and radiotherapy, although modern targeted therapies such as BRAF inhibitors are showing some promise. Photodynamic therapy (PDT, the combination of photosensitizing dyes and visible light) has been tested in th...
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Janet E Brown, Stanley B Brown and David I Vernon talk about the latest developments in the fight against cancer biological effect. PDT is currently being developed, not only for cancer but also for benign diseases such as macular degeneration and cardiovascular disease. In principle, the application of PDT to a patient is very simple (Figure 1) however, in practice the dosimetry is critical bo...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Actas Dermo-Sifiliográficas (English Edition)
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1578-2190
DOI: 10.1016/s1578-2190(07)70471-7