Catalog

PUVA-associated pseudoporphyria

No MMS code

Link to WHO Definition

PUVA-associated pseudoporphyria – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1686189363

A blistering eruption clinically indistinguishable from porphyria cutanea tarda which may arise in patients who have received psoralen photochemotherapy over a prolonged period. It is not associated with demonstrable abnormalities of porphyrins.