How Finsen's light cured lupus vulgaris

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 118-124

  Møller, Kirsten Iversen ^a   Kongshoj, Brian ^a   Philipsen, Peter Alshede ^a   Thomsen, Vibeke Ostergaard ^b   Wulf, Hans Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Light therapy; Lupus vulgaris; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Niels Ryberg Finsen; PDT; Porphyrin; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

COPROPORPHYRIN; PORPHYRIN DERIVATIVE; UROPORPHYRIN;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIGHT ABSORPTION; LUPUS VULGARIS; MYCOBACTERIUM MARINUM; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN TUBERCULOSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; WAVEFORM;

HUMANS; LUPUS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PHOTOTHERAPY; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 20144378417     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2005.00159.x     Document Type: Article

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