title: Spanish adaptation of the European guidelines for the evaluation and treatment of actinic keratosis.
abstract: Current trends in our setting indicate that the prevalence of actinic keratosis and similar diseases will increase in coming years and impose a greater burden on health care resources. A long list of clinical features must be taken into account when approaching the treatment of actinic keratosis. Until recently, therapeutic approaches focused solely on ablative procedures and the treatment of individual lesions and did not take into account areas of field cancerization. Now that the therapeutic arsenal has grown, standardized criteria are needed to guide the optimal choice of treatment for each patient. The elaboration of evidence-based consensus recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of actinic keratosis generates knowledge that will help clinicians to deliver the highest level of care possible, standardizing decision-making processes and enhancing awareness among all the health professionals involved in the care pathway.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Universitario Germans Trías i Pujol, Badalona, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: cferrandiz.germanstrias@gencat.cat.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ferrándiz
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de A Coruña, A Coruña, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fonseca-Capdevila
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Universitario de la Princesa, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Diez
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Instituto Valenciano de Oncología, Valencia, Spain.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Guillén-Barona
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Alicante, Spain.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Belinchón-Romero
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Clínica Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Redondo-Bellón
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Dermatología, Hospital Universitario Reina Sofía de Córdoba, Córdoba, Spain.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Moreno-Giménez
authors.affiliation: Centro de Atención Primaria El Clot, Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Senán
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D055623:Keratosis, Actinic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013030:Spain
keywords: Actinic keratosis; Criteria; Criterios; Guía de tratamiento; Queratosis actínicas; Tratamiento; Treatment; Treatment guidelines