Successful treatment of vitiligo with punch graft followed by outdoor topical psoralen plus ultraviolet a radiation

Archives of Iranian Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 86-90

  Hallaji, Zahra ^a   Daneshpazhooh, Maryam ^a   Rezai Khiabanloo, Samad ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Punch grafting; Topical PUVA; Vitiligo

Indexed keywords

METHOXSALEN; PSORALEN; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; IRAN; MALE; MELANOCYTE; PHOTOTHERAPY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; VITILIGO;

EID: 0041471219     PISSN: 10292977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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