Topical photodynamic therapy for primary cutaneous B-cell lymphoma: a pilot study.
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a treatment based on the accumulation of a photosensitizer in the target cells and their selective destruction by irradiation with visible light. In the past 10 years, several patients with cutaneous T cell lymphoma have been successfully treated. The use of PDT in cutaneous B cell lymphoma has not been reported to date. We report the successful PDT treatment of 3 patients with early primary cutaneous B cell lymphoma.
Physical Therapy Unit, University of Florence Medical School, Florence, Italy.
Moira
M
Mori
Piero
P
Campolmi
Luciano
L
Mavilia
Riccardo
R
Rossi
Pietro
P
Cappugi
Nicola
N
Pimpinelli
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016393:Lymphoma, B-Cell / Q000188:drug therapy*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010778:Photochemotherapy; D010865:Pilot Projects; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy*