Photo(chemo)therapy: General principles

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 745-752

  Lowe, Nicholas J ^a,b   Chizhevsky, Vladislav ^a   Gabriel, Hani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; BERGAPTEN; COAL TAR; CORTICOSTEROID; CREATININE; CYTOKINE; DITHRANOL; DNA; ETRETIN; ETRETINATE; FUROCOUMARIN DERIVATIVE; HLA ANTIGEN; HYDROXYUREA; LIPID; LIVER ENZYME; LYMPHOKINE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METHOTREXATE; METHOXSALEN; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENT; PSORALEN; PYRIMIDINE; SALAZOSULFAPYRIDINE; TRIMETHYLPSORALEN;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CYTOTOXICITY; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LANGERHANS CELL; NONHUMAN; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUVA; REVIEW; SKIN CANCER; TERATOGENICITY; TOPICAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

EID: 0030864016     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0738-081X(97)00017-5     Document Type: Article

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