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Phototherapy and photochemotherapy: an update
1Department of Dermatology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery
|December 22, 1999
Abstract:
Three types of phototherapy and 2 forms of photochemotherapy are now available for treatment of more than 40 diseases of the skin. Broadband ultraviolet B (UVB) phototherapy and oral psoralen photochemotherapy (PUVA) therapy are most widely available while there has been increased interest in topical PUVA therapy. Narrow-band UVB phototherapy and UVA-1 phototherapy offer potential for the future.