Serge Mordon, Anne S Vignion-Dewalle, Elise Thecua, Claire Vicentini, Cyril Maire, Pascal Deleporte, Gregory Baert, Fabienne Lecomte, Laurent Mortier
Natural DayLight-mediated PhotoDynamic Therapy (NDL-PDT) is an efficacious treatment option for thin actinic keratosis that offers advantages over conventional PDT in terms of tolerability, treatment duration, and cost. It is now accepted that the minimum criteria required for effective NDL-PDT is a dose of 4 J/cm2 with a treatment time of 2 h and a minimum temperature of 10°C, corresponding to a minimum illuminance of 11 000 lux. This value is easily achievable: 20 000 lux can be obtained during a typical overcast day at midday...
February 7, 2018: Giornale Italiano di Dermatologia e Venereologia: Organo Ufficiale, Società Italiana di Dermatologia e Sifilografia