Failure of short-term psoralen and ultraviolet A light maintenance treatment to prevent early relapse in patients with chronic recurring plaque-type psoriasis

Photodermatology Photoimmunology and Photomedicine

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 90-93

  Radakovic, Sonja ^a   Seeber, Arno ^b   Hönigsmann, Herbert ^a   Tanew, Adrian ^a  

^a Universitatsklinik fur Dermatologie   (Austria)

^b Department of Dermatology ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

Maintenance treatment; Photochemotherapy; Psoriasis; PUVA

Indexed keywords

ETRETIN; PSORALEN;

ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAINTENANCE THERAPY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS SEVERITY INDEX; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; PUVA; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; REMISSION; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; FICUSIN; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOSENSITIZING AGENTS; PSORIASIS; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT FAILURE; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 62749201798     PISSN: 09054383     EISSN: 16000781     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0781.2009.00413.x     Document Type: Article

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