PUVA bath photochemotherapy for localized scleroderma: Evaluation of 17 consecutive patients

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 132, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1280-1282

  Kerscher, Martina ^a,b   Meurer, Michael ^a   Sander, Christian ^a   Volkenandt, Matthias ^a   Lehmann, Percy ^a,c   Plewig, Gerd ^a   Rocken, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL DERIVATIVE; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; METHOXSALEN; PENICILLAMINE; PSORALEN; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BATH; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRUG ERUPTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUVA; SCLERODERMA; SKIN BIOPSY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUVA THERAPY; SCLERODERMA, LOCALIZED;

EID: 0029911954     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.132.11.1280     Document Type: Article

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