An open trial of climatotherapy at the dead sea for patch-stage mycosis fungoides

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 33-38

  Hodak, Emmilia ^a,b   Gottlieb, Alice B ^d   Segal, Tzvi ^a   Maron, Lea ^a   Lotem, Michal ^c   Feinmesser, Meora ^a,b   David, Michael ^a,b  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMOLLIENT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLIMATOTHERAPY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSORIASIS; RECORDING; REMISSION; SEA; SUN EXPOSURE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALNEOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; NEOPLASM STAGING; OCEANS AND SEAS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REMISSION INDUCTION; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUNLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 3042781169     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2003.11.052     Document Type: Article

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