Catalog

PUVA lentiginosis

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Link to WHO Definition

PUVA lentiginosis – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1393693773

The presence of multiple lentigines in fair-skinned people who have received an excessive cumulative exposure to ultraviolet A radiation during psoralen photochemotherapy treatment, usually for psoriasis. The lentigines are typically darker in colour than actinic lentigines and may appear clinically bizarre and irregular. It is however rare for them to progress to melanoma.