An Intraindividual Study of the Characteristics of Erythema Induced by Bath and Oral Methoxsalen Photochemotherapy and Narrowband Ultraviolet B

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 55-60

  Man, Irene ^a   Dawe, Robert S ^a   Ferguson, James ^a   Ibbotson, Sally H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHOXSALEN; PSORALEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALNEOTHERAPY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZATION; PHOTOTOXICITY; PUVA; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; ADULT; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; METHOXSALEN; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PUVA THERAPY; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 0242365509     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1562/0031-8655(2003)078<0055:AISOTC>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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