Psoralen cream plus ultraviolet A photochemotherapy (PUVA cream): Our experience

Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 136-142

  Pozo Román, Tomás ^a   Gonzalez Lopez A ^a   Velasco Vaquero, M E ^a   Nunez Cabezon M ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO RÍO HORTEGA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Photochemotherapy; Psoralen cream plus ultraviolet A; PUVA cream

Indexed keywords

METHOXSALEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTACT DERMATITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREAM; DERMOGRAPHISM; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG SAFETY; ECZEMA; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HUMAN; LICHEN PLANUS; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MALE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; POMPHOLYX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUSTULOSIS PALMOPLANTARIS; PUVA; SCLERODERMA; SIDE EFFECT; SKIN BURNING SENSATION; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFLAMMATION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; VITILIGO; VOLUNTEER; WOUND HEALING; BLOOD; CHEMISTRY; INTRADERMAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, CUTANEOUS; ADULT; AGED; CHEMISTRY, PHARMACEUTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METHOXSALEN; MIDDLE AGED; PUVA THERAPY; REFERENCE VALUES; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33646256814     PISSN: 09269959     EISSN: 14683083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2006.01378.x     Document Type: Article

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