UVA Skin damage Sunburn while Driving

[waltermlee]

I wear broad spectrum sun block while driving to avoid skin damage but I didn't know this kind of skin damage had a special name until now... Below is a story about a professional truck driver who had long term exposure (28 years) to Ultraviolet A (UVA) rays transmited through the window glass of a delivery truck he was driving. The resulting facial skin damage on the left side of his face is called unilateral dermatoheliosis.

unilateral dermatoheliosis
Jennifer R Gordon MD and Joaquin C Brieva MD
New England Journal of Medicine 2012, 366 e25.
April 10, 2012

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm1104059

[ALS]

Hi Walter,

Chuck put this same story up on June 2nd.

Uneven tan: Face of trucker after 25 years