Treatment of polymorphous light eruption with nicotinamide: a pilot study
- 1 July 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Dermatology
- Vol. 115 (1), 77-80
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2133.1986.tb06222.x
Abstract
In a pilot study, 42 patients suffering from polymorphus light eruption (PLE) were treated with oral nicotinamide, 3 g daily for 2 weeks. Twenty-five patients remained free from lesions despite extensive sun exposure. We suggest that an abnormality in tryptophan metabolism is important in the aetiology of PLE, and that nicotinamide administration partially corrects this.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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