Successful treatment of a rare case of widespread extragenital lichen sclerosus with narrow band UVB phototherapy
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[Narrow band UVB phototherapy in the treatment of widespread lichen planus].
INTRODUCTION UVA phototherapy, acitretin and oral corticosteroids are currently the front-line treatment of disseminated cutaneous lichen planus. We studied the efficacy of narrow band UVB therapy in this indication. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively studied the dossiers of patients suffering from disseminated cutaneous lichen planus, treated with narrow band phototherapy in the Phototh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Surgical & Cosmetic Dermatology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1984-8773
DOI: 10.5935/scd1984-8773.2015731668