An Optimal Method for Experimental Provocation of Polymorphic Light Eruption

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 140, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 286-292

  Van De Pas, Chantalle B ^a   Hawk, John L ^a   Young, Antony R ^a,b   Walker, Susan L ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHOTODERMATOSIS; POLYMORPHIC LIGHT ERUPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REVIEW; SOLAR RADIATION; SUN EXPOSURE; SUNBURN; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY DISORDERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIATION DOSAGE; SKIN; SKIN TESTS; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 1442294459     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.140.3.286     Document Type: Review

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