Treatment of radiation-induced dermatitis with light-emitting diode (LED) photomodulation

Lasers in Surgery and Medicine

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 164-168

  DeLand, M Maitland ^a   Weiss, Robert A ^b,c   McDaniel, David H ^d   Geronemus, Roy G ^e  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Maryland Laser Skin and Vein Institute   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EASTERN VIRGINIA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Fibroblast; IMRT; Irradiation; Led; Low intensity light; Photomodulation; Skin reaction

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER PATIENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERMATITIS; DERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFLAMMATION; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; LIGHT EMITTING DIODE; PARTIAL MASTECTOMY; PATIENT MONITORING; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DERMATITIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ADULT; AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; FIBROBLASTS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOTHERAPY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIODERMATITIS; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED;

EID: 33947132558     PISSN: 01968092     EISSN: 10969101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lsm.20455     Document Type: Article

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