Different applications of monochromatic excimer light in skin diseases

Photomedicine and Laser Surgery

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 647-654

  Nisticò, Steven Paul ^b   Saraceno, Rosita ^a   Schipani, Caterina ^a   Costanzo, Antonio ^a   Chimenti, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESPONSE; EXCIMER LIGHT; PARTIAL REMISSION; POWER DENSITIES; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN DISEASE; TOTAL DOSE;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONOCHROMATORS; SKIN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

DERMATOLOGY;

HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULT; ALOPECIA AREATA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHEMA; EXCIMER LASER; FEMALE; GRANULOMA ANNULARE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPIGMENTATION; LICHEN SCLEROSUS ET ATROPHICUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYCOSIS FUNGOIDES; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; PUSTULOSIS PALMOPLANTARIS; RADIATION DOSE; SCLERODERMA; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN EDEMA; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITILIGO;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY, LOW-LEVEL; LASERS, EXCIMER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SKIN DISEASES; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY;

EID: 69249117010     PISSN: 15495418     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/pho.2008.2317     Document Type: Article

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