Assessment of the usefulness of skin phototype and skin color as the parameter of cutaneous narrow band UVB sensitivity in psoriasis patients

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 261-264

  Youn, Jai Il ^a   Park, Je Young ^a   Jo, Seong Jin ^a   Rim, Jong Hyun ^a   Choe, Yong Beom ^b  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Narrow band UVB; Skin color; Skin phototype

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUTTOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COLORIMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; RADIATION DOSE; REFERENCE VALUE; SKIN COLOR; SKIN EXAMINATION; SKIN SENSITIVITY; SKIN TEST; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

BUTTOCKS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; ERYTHEMA; HUMANS; PSORIASIS; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 0141737442     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0781.2003.00047.x     Document Type: Article

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