New and established indications for phototherapy with narrowband UVB;Neue und etablierte indikationen der UV-B-311-nm-phototherapie

JDDG - Journal of the German Society of Dermatology

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 874-882

  Berneburg, Mark ^a,b   Brod, Corinna ^a   Benedix, Frauke ^a   Röcken, Martin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Broadband UV B; Narrowband UV B; Phototherapy; Psoriasis; Skin cancer; Ultraviolet radiation

Indexed keywords

CALCIPOTRIOL; CALCITRIOL; COLECALCIFEROL; CYCLOSPORIN A; ETRETIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; MACROLIDE; METHOXSALEN; RETINOID; TACALCITOL; TACROLIMUS; TAZAROTENE; RADIOSENSITIZING AGENT;

ATOPIC DERMATITIS; BEAM THERAPY; FLUORESCENCE; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; LIGHT; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PARAPSORIASIS; PHOTODERMATOSIS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUVA; REVIEW; SKIN INFLAMMATION; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITILIGO; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SKIN DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

HUMANS; PUVA THERAPY; RADIATION-SENSITIZING AGENTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 33644668139     PISSN: 16100379     EISSN: 16100387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1610-0387.2005.05072.x     Document Type: Review

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