Korean J Dermatol.
2001 Sep;39(9):972-978.
Clinical Study for the Photosensitive Disease
- Affiliations
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- 1Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, Gyeongsang National University, Korea. derkim@hitel.net
- 2Department of Dermatology, Dr. Kang's Skin Clinic, Chinju, Korea. derkim@nongae.gsnu.ac.kr
Abstract
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BACKGROUND: Although dermatologists may encounter photosensitivity patients commonly, most dermatologists are not familiar with diseases manifesting photosensitivity and there is still no clinical study on photosensitivity disease in Korea.
OBJECTIVE
We tried to investigate incidences and sorts of photosensitivity diseases with clinical informations.
METHODS
We performed a retrospective clinical review of patients who had photosensitivity as a chief complaint in the department of dermatology, Gyeongsang National University hospital from 1991 to 2000.
RESULTS
There were a variety of diverse photosensitive diseases in this clinical study. Drug-induced photosensitivity including phototoxicity and photoallergy were fairly common (19.7%), and causative drugs were various including antibiotics, diuretics and even medicinal herb. We could find co-occurrence of some diseases in photosensitivity patients (39.3%), most of which were chronic degenerative diseases.
CONCLUSION
Further clinical studies will be needed to get additional and standardized information in Korea, and precise clinical work-ups would be necessary to differentiate variable spectrums of photosensitivity diseases we showed in this study.
