Safety Guidelines for PDT of Cutaneous Lesions.
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The purpose of these safety guidelines is to list the requirements and conditions that need to be strictly adhered to, in order to promote and ensure the safety of patients, doctors and medical personnel during a photodynamic therapy (PDT) procedure for dermatological, cutaneous lesions. In the field of dermatology, the most common type of PDT procedure is such where a topical photosensitizer, 5-aminolevulic acid (5ALA, ALA ), a porphyrin precursor, has been applied to the skin which is subsequently irradiated with laser energy of a specific wavelength. These guidelines will focus on PDT with ALA (ALA-PDT) 1-6 for cutaneous lesions.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Laser therapy
دوره 21 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2012