Whole blood levels of δ-aminolaevulinic acid dehydratase in patients with psoriasis and mycosis fungoides on topical therapy and on photochemotherapy |
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| Authors: | RONA M MACKIE MARTINE A HUGHES† ME IMOGEN MORGAN‡ EM MCMILLAN HELEN M NELSON |
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| Institution: | University of Glasgow, Department of Dermatology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow G11 6NT;University of Glasgow, Department of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Stobhill General Hospital, Glasgow G21 3UW;Royal Hospital for Sick Children, 9 Scientist Road, Edinburgh EH9 1LF |
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| Abstract: | δ-Aminolaevulinic acid dehydratase levels in whole blood were found to be raised in sixteen patients with severe psoriasis receiving photochemotherapy, normal in thirty psoriatic patients on topical therapy only and significantly reduced in twelve patients with mycosis fungoides receiving photochemotherapy. In another six mycosis fungoides patients on topical therapy only, the reduction did not reach statistical significance. |
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