The treatment of erythropoietic protoporphyria.
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Dermatology
- Vol. 97 (6) , 663
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1977.tb14274.x
Abstract
In a group of 19 subjects suffering from erythropoietic protoporphyria, administration of .beta.-carotene appeared to produce improvement based on a subjective assessment of alterations in exposure times required to produce the symptoms and signs of the condition. This clinical improvement failed to show a direct correlation with porphyrin levels in blood and feces, or with the estimation by phototesting of the minimal response dose within the action spectrum of 400-600 nm.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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