Photodynamic Treatment of Rheumatoid and Inflammatory Arthritis

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 740-750

  Trauner, Kenneth B ^a   Hasan, Tayyaba ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; SYNOVITIS;

ANIMALS; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; HUMANS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; SYNOVITIS;

EID: 0030293868     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1996.tb01829.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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