Treatment of erosive oral lichen planus with local ultraviolet B phototherapy

Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 761-766

  Kassem, Riad ^a,b   Yarom, Noam ^a,b   Scope, Alon ^a,b   Babaev, Meir ^a,b   Trau, Henri ^a,b   Pavlotzky, Felix ^a,b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

maintenance treatment; oral lichen planus; oral lichen planus global assessment scale; phototherapy; psoralen plus ultraviolet A; targeted UVB

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LICHEN PLANUS; MALE; MOUTH MUCOSA; ORAL LICHEN PLANUS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DOSE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; ISRAEL; LICHEN PLANUS, ORAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH MUCOSA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHOTOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84859862780     PISSN: 01909622     EISSN: 10976787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaad.2011.04.017     Document Type: Article

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