Abstract
Human diseases have been treated with the sun's rays since antiquity.1 It is a form of phototherapy, which is defined as the direct use of nonionizing radiation to treat disease. The use of ultraviolet B radiation (290 to 320 nm) in the treatment of psoriasis, with or without the additive effect of coal-tar products, is an excellent example of phototherapy. The effects of ultraviolet B rays on this disease appear to result from a direct inhibition of DNA synthesis and mitosis in the hyperproliferating epidermal cells that are characteristic of psoriasis.2 However, direct effects on dermal blood vessels and infiltrating . . .
Keywords
PsoriasisMedicineDermatologyUltraviolet radiationUltraviolet therapyCoal tarUltravioletOpticsChemistry
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- 1149-1151
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John H. Epstein
(1990).
Phototherapy and Photochemotherapy.
New England Journal of Medicine
, 322
(16)
, 1149-1151.
https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199004193221609
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- 10.1056/nejm199004193221609