Whole blood levels of delta-aminolaevulinic acid dehydratase in patients with psoriasis and mycosis fungoides on topical therapy and on photochemotherapy

Abstract

Summary δ‐Aminolaevulinic acid dehydratase levels in whole blood were found to be raised in sixteen patients with severe psoriasis receiving photochemotherapy, normal in thirty psoriatic patients on topical therapy only and significantly reduced in twelve patients with mycosis fungoides receiving photochemotherapy. In another six mycosis fungoides patients on topical therapy only, the reduction did not reach statistical significance.