Ruimere toepassing van fotodynamische therapie in de dermatologie

- Photodynamic treatment is increasingly employed in the detection and treatment of malignant and non-malignant skin disease.

- Indications for photodynamic therapy so far are actinic keratosis, Bowen’s disease and superficially growing basal cell carcinomas, and probably verrucae and acne vulgaris.

- This technology is also currently under investigation for fluorescence diagnostics of tumour margins.

- The exact position of photodynamic therapy has not yet been established because there are too less long-term comparative studies demonstrating its effectiveness.

- Based on the short-term results, photodynamic therapy deserves a place within the total therapeutic arsenal of the dermatologist of today for the indications mentioned above.

Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 2005;149:232-7