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Sunbed-induced pseudoporphyria
G M Murphy1, J Wright, D S Nicholls
1St John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, London, U.K.
The British Journal of Dermatology
|April 1, 1989
Abstract:
The clinical details of four fair-skinned women with recurrent blistering and skin fragility are presented. All had considerable sun-exposure and had used sunbeds for years. Specific causes of bullous dermatoses including drug ingestion, porphyria, cutaneous amyloidosis and epidermolysis bullosa acquisita were excluded. Long-term recurrent exposure to high doses of sunbed radiation in chronically sun-damaged skin appears to be a further cause of pseudoporphyria.