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Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis
A H Rook1, B Freundlich, G T Nahass
1General Clinical Research Center, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
|November 1, 1989
Abstract:
In this report, we describe the use of extracorporeal photochemotherapy in n the treatment of two patients with rapidly advancing progressive systemic sclerosis. Both patients experienced improvement in the cutaneous as well as the systemic manifestations of their disease while undergoing therapy. The potential therapeutic mechanisms are discussed.