Treatment of severe actinic rectitis
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Treatment of actinic keratoses
illions of vacationers deliberately expose themselves to excessive UV radiation. As a result, the risk of UVrelated skin damage is rapidly increasing. Sun worshippers thus have to expect an increased risk for actinic keratoses (a carcinoma in situ). Most recent estimates prove that about 8 million Germans suffer from actinic keratoses. There is an estimated prevalence of about 15 percent among ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Sao Paulo Medical Journal
سال: 1998
ISSN: 1516-3180
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-31801998000100007