The article summarizes information about actinic keratosis, presents modern literature data on the epidemiology of the disease, the features of the clinical picture, diagnosis, differential diagnosis, therapy of the disease

actinic keratosis, solar keratosis, senile keratosis, precancerous skin lesion, chronic photodamage, squamous cell carcinoma in situ, solar radiation, ultraviolet, actinic cheilitis.

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