Excimer laser as adjuvant therapy for adult cutaneous Langerhans cell histiocytosis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1287-1290

  Vogel, Curt A ^a   Aughenbaugh, William ^a   Sharata, Harry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Madison Skin and Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIFUNGAL AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; IMMUNOMODULATING AGENT; PSORALEN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CUTANEOUS LANGERHANS CELL HISTIOCYTOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXCIMER LASER; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HISTIOCYTOSIS X; HUMAN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INGUINAL REGION; LANGERHANS CELL; LYMPHOCYTOMA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN MANIFESTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HISTIOCYTOSIS, LANGERHANS-CELL; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; RADIOTHERAPY, ADJUVANT; SKIN DISEASES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 54349089846     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.144.10.1287     Document Type: Article

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