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Granuloma annulare treated with narrowband UVB phototherapy [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia, 2017
Granuloma annulare is a benign cutaneous inflammatory disease, whose lesions have spontaneous improvement in two years in 50% of cases, but there is recurrence in 40% of patients. Treatment may be topical, intralesional or systemic.
Bianca Pinheiro Bousquet Muylaert, Roberta Almada, Rossana Cantanhede Farias de Vasconcelos   +2 more
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Clinical efficacy of the rotation of phototherapy methods (PUVA therapy and mid-wavelength ultraviolet therapy (311 nm)) in patients with moderate to severe forms of psoriasis

Vestnik Dermatologii i Venerologii, 2017
Goal. To assess the therapeutic efficacy of the rotation of mid-wavelength ultraviolet therapy (311 nm) and PUVA therapy in patients with moderate to severe forms of psoriasis, and to assess the efficacy of mid-wavelength ultraviolet therapy (311 nm) in ...
M. B. Zhilova, V. V. Chikin
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Deep Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diode Light Therapy for Fusobacterium nucleatum

Microorganisms, 2021
Background: Fusobacterium nucleatum, which is associated with periodontitis and gingivitis, has been detected in colorectal cancer (CRC). Methods: We evaluated the bactericidal effect of deep ultraviolet (DUV) light-emitting diode (LED) light therapy on ...
Soichiro Fukuda, Shunsuke Ito, Jun Nishikawa, Tatsuya Takagi, Naoto Kubota, Ken-ichiro Otsuyama, Hidehiro Tsuneoka, Junzo Nojima, Koji Harada, Katsuaki Mishima, Yutaka Suehiro, Takahiro Yamasaki, Isao Sakaida   +12 more
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Upconversion Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapy

Advanced NanoBiomed Research, 2022
Lanthanide‐doped upconversion nanoparticles (UCNPs) are anti‐Stokes emitters, which can produce higher‐energy ultraviolet/visible and near‐infrared (NIR) luminescence when excited with low‐energy NIR light. They are featured with nonphotobleaching, sharp
Yang Li, Guanying Chen
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Phototherapy in sclerotic skin diseases

Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2023
Introduction: UVA therapy is used in treatment of wide range of skin diseases, which proceed with hardening of the skin or inflammation. First use of ultraviolet radiation can be tracked down to 1896.
Bartłomiej Żmuda, Daniel Ślusarczyk, Piotr Pisera, Aleksandra Kiełkowicz, Zuzanna Popińska, Filip Pactwa, Wiktoria Jakubowska, Michał Żuberek   +7 more
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The role of phototherapy in pediatric dermatology [PDF]

Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia
Background Phototherapy is one of the widely used therapeutic options in dermatology, and it has proven effective for many dermatological conditions.
Eine Benavides, Dan Hartmann, Catalina Retamal, Fernando Valenzuela   +3 more
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Effectiveness of Narrowband Ultraviolet on Vitiligo: A Systematic Review

Dermato
Background: Narrowband ultraviolet B (nb-UVB) is one of the most popular and effective modalities to treat vitiligo. Given the importance of nb-UBV, as well as its associations, this research searched the literature for answers on how to best treat ...
Ana Luisa Tenani Pereira da Costa, Julya Gracite de Menezes, Mayara Louise Beltrame, Bianca Veronese da Silva, Dartel Ferrari Lima, Dérrick Patrick Artioli, Márcia Rosângela Buzanello, Gladson Ricardo Flor Bertolini   +7 more
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A New Drug-Free Cancer Therapy Using Ultraviolet Pulsed Irradiation. PDT (PhotoDynamic Therapy) to PPT (Pulsed Photon Therapy)

Frontiers in Bioscience-Scholar, 2022
Background: Pulsed ultraviolet (UV) irradiation can be used to generate a broad UV-C spectrum. The pulsing nature of such a spectrum helps increase the damage to cancer cells, leading to their injury and death.
Johbu Itoh, Yoshiko Itoh
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Ultraviolet light therapy in chronic urticaria

Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 1985
Fifteen patients with chronic urticaria were treated with ultraviolet light B (UVB) for 1-3 months during the spring 1984 and a follow-up study was performed in November 1984-January 1985. Patients with cold urticaria, cholinergic urticaria and dermographism became clearly better or got rid of their symptoms more often than those with "non-specific ...
M, Hannuksela, E L, Kokkonen
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Predicting phototherapy efficacy in vulvar lichen sclerosus using high-frequency ultrasound combined with superb microvascular imaging

Frontiers in Medicine
ObjectivesTo develop a non-invasive model predicting narrow-band UVB (NB-UVB) phototherapy efficacy in vulvar lichen sclerosus (VLS) using high-frequency ultrasound (HF-US, 24 MHz) and superb microvascular imaging (SMI) parameters.MethodsForty-seven ...
Yifei Liu, Yu Lu, Yujuan Guo, Chuang Li, Kaikai Shen   +4 more
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