Ultraviolet-based therapy for vitiligo: What's new

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 42-48

  Hamzavi, Iltefat H ^a   Lim, Henry W ^a   Syed, Zain U ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjuvant therapy; dosing; photochemotherapy; phototherapy; vitiligo

Indexed keywords

8 ISOAMYLENEOXYPSORALEN; ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ANTIOXIDANT; ASCORBIC ACID; BERGAPTEN; CALCINEURIN INHIBITOR; CALCIPOTRIOL; CHLORIDE; CORTICOSTEROID; CYANOCOBALAMIN; CYSTEINE; FOLIC ACID; HYDROCORTISONE BUTYRATE; METHOXSALEN; ORAL MINIPULSE STEROID; PIMECROLIMUS; POLYPODIUM LEUCOTOMOS EXTRACT; POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID; PSEUDOCATALASE; PSORALEN; PYRIMIDINE DIMER; TACROLIMUS; THIOCTIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE; XENON;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; BLISTER; CANCER RISK; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONFERENCE PAPER; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DNA DAMAGE; DRUG PULSE THERAPY; DRUG PURIFICATION; ERYTHEMA; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXCIMER LASER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEOPARD SYNDROME; NARROW BAND ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; NAUSEA; NON MELANOMA SKIN CANCER; PATIENT SELECTION; PHOTOTOXICITY; PIGMENTATION; PRURITUS; PSORIASIS; PUVA; RADIATION CARCINOGENESIS; RADIATION DOSE; SKIN TOXICITY; ULTRAVIOLET A RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; ULTRAVIOLET IRRADIATION; VITILIGO; VOMITING; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY; PHOTOTHERAPY; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY; VITILIGO;

EID: 84861062945     PISSN: 03786323     EISSN: 09733922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0378-6323.90945     Document Type: Conference Paper

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