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Photopheresis (extracorporeal photochemotherapy)
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2012Photopheresis is a form of phototherapy where specialized equipment is used to isolate a leukocyte fraction from the peripheral blood which is then exposed to photoactivated 8-methoxypsoralen and reinfused into the patient. At the time of its invention the treatment was conceptually based on the hypothesis of T cell vaccination, i.e. the observation in
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Photochemotherapy of Sézary Syndrome
Dermatologica, 2009Photochemotherapy was effectively applied in 4 patients with Sézary syndrome. Clinically, complete clearing of the skin could be achieved by this kind of treatment. Photochemotherapy may be recommended as a useful treatment of less advanced cases for patients with no history of extreme sun sensitivity.
P M, Kövary, P, Frosch, E, Macher
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Xerodermoid induced by photochemotherapy
The American Journal of Dermatopathology, 1984Photochemotherapy induces alterations in the skin that resemble those in xeroderma pigmentosum. Acute responses may be distinguished from late, chronic, and delayed responses to PUVA. All of the types of cells present in the skin are affected by photochemotherapy. The structure of the epidermis and of the superficial dermis are altered and, possibly as
G E, Pierard, C, Pierard-Franchimont
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Psoralen photochemotherapy of psoriasis
British Journal of Dermatology, 2006The value of PUVA therapy in selected patients with severe psoriasis has been confirmed. Suppression of the disease was incomplete in those patients whose disease was unstable, with associated seborrhoeic dermatitic features. No consistent change in the proportion of epidermal cells in DNA synthesis could be demonstrated during regression of the ...
E, Hell, C, Hodgson, V, Manna
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Phototherapy and photochemotherapy: An update
Seminars in Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery, 1999Three 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
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PHOTOCHEMOTHERAPY IN PSORIASIS
Medical Journal of Australia, 1979R, King, K, Paver, K, Poyzer
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Photochemotherapy for Mycosis Fungoides
Archives of Dermatology, 1977Twelve cases of cutaneous mycosis fungoides (MF) with erythroderma, plaques, and tumors were treated with photochemotherapy. Methoxsalen followed two hours later by ultraviolet light (UVA) resulted in clinical clearing of skin lesions in seven patients with plaque stage MF and one patient with erythrodermic MF.
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Photochemotherapy: Dermatologic Uses
Southern Medical Journal, 1978Photochemotherapy is a new concept in treating selected skin disease. Psoralens taken orally two hours before high-intensity UVA radiation results in clinical clearing of psoriasis, mycosis fungoides, vitiligo, and atopic eczema. The results of two large cooperative studies in the treatment of psoriasis presented similar results.
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