Actinic keratoses are common in older individuals and topical immunotherapy is an important treatment when multiple lesions are present. To assess the efficacy of 5-fluorouracil in treating ...

A database search of PubMed and Embase was performed from 1965 to April 2012 using the terms 'actinic keratoses', 'solar keratoses', 'topical 5-fluorouracil', 'topical 5-FU', 'double-blind ...

Hypertrophic actinic keratosis lesions (yellowish plaques in left image) were treated with a combination of calcipotriol plus fluorouracil had largely disappeared 8 weeks later (right). Disclaimer ...

Situations in which Efudex might be appropriate include: Treating actinic keratosis, also called solar keratosis, is important because it can lead to more severe and invasive squamous cell ...