From patient to discoverer-Niels Ryberg Finsen (1860-1904)-the founder of phototherapy in dermatology

Clinics in Dermatology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 451-455

  Grzybowski, Andrzej ^a,b   Pietrzak, Krzysztof ^c  

^a Poznan City Hospital   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACHIEVEMENT; ARTICLE; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CAREER; DERMATOLOGY; FINSEN LIGHT; HUMAN; LITERATURE; LUPUS VULGARIS; MEDICAL DEVICE; NIEMANN PICK DISEASE; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WHEELCHAIR;

DENMARK; DERMATOLOGY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LUPUS VULGARIS; NOBEL PRIZE; PHOTOTHERAPY; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 84861999693     PISSN: 0738081X     EISSN: 18791131     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clindermatol.2011.11.019     Document Type: Article

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