photodamage

photodamage

Photoaging Dermatology The structural and functional deterioration of sun-exposed skin, resulting in wrinkling, roughness, altered texture, discoloration, acral lentigines, mottled hyperpigmentation, ↓ epidermal thickness, basophilic degeneration of dermis, ↓ collagen, ↓ dermal vessels, epithelial atypia, dysplasia Management Photoaging is largely reversed by tretinoin