Photodermatology

An overview of photodermatoses management, treatment, identification, and assessment, this source offers recommendations and guidelines on these conditions. It also discusses narrow and broadband UVB, PUVA, photopheresis, UVA1 therapy, and photodynamic therapy, principles and medical/cosmetic uses of lasers and similar sources, phototesting, photopatch testing, and development of phototherapy units.

With highly illustrative chapters, this definitive text explores:

• the history of photodermatology, basic photobiological principles, normal cutaneous photoreactions, photoimmunology, sunburning, photocarcinogenesis, and patch and photopatch testing
• photoprotection and related public health issues
• acute and chronic effects of UV radiation on the skin using in vitro studies and animal models
• clinical manifestations of photodermatoses: actinic prurigo, pin-head papules of polymorphic light eruption, and novel genetic mutations in porphyrias