Successful treatment of lichen amyloidosis with combined bath PUVA photochemotherapy and oral acitretin

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-42

  Grimmer, J ^a   Weiss, T ^a   Weber, L ^a   Meixner, D ^a   Scharffetter Kochanek, K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; ETRETIN; PSORALEN; SALICYLIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DRY EYE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LICHEN AMYLOIDOSUS; LOCAL THERAPY; MALE; PAPULE; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; PUVA; SKIN DISEASE; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; XEROSTOMIA;

ACITRETIN; AGED; AMYLOIDOSIS; BATHS; HUMANS; KERATOLYTIC AGENTS; LEG DERMATOSES; LICHENOID ERUPTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUVA THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845738328     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2006.02244.x     Document Type: Article

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