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The treatment of sclerosing skin diseases [systemic sclerosis, localized scleroderma, lichen
sclerosus et atrophicus, sclerodermoid graft‐vs.‐host disease, scleredema adultorum …

Background: The efforts to treat localized scleroderma, including therapies with potentially
hazardous side effects, are often unsatisfactory. Recently, PUVA-bath photochemotherapy …

Systemic and localized scleroderma are difficult to manage diseases with no accepted gold
standard of therapy to date. Phototherapeutic modalities for scleroderma show promise. A …

Phototherapy is an effective treatment strategy for a variety of sclerosing skin conditions.
There are a number of phototherapeutic modalities used for the treatment of sclerosing skin …

BACKGROUND: Systemic sclerosis is a multisystemic connective tissue disease with
marked involvement of the skin and joints for which few effective evidence based therapies …

Sclerosing skin diseases such as localized scleroderma or lichen sclerosus frequently result
in significant morbidity that requires treatment. Until 10 years ago, no generally effective …

• Background and Design.—In a pilot study of extracorporeal photochemotherapy, two
patients with systemic sclerosis who received this therapy experienced significant clinical …

In systemic sclerosis (SSc; scleroderma) fibrosis of the skin can lead to considerable
morbidity. No significant improvement has been reported from studies investigating …

Photochemotherapy in systemic sclerosis—remedy or nostrum? In this issue of theArchives,
Rook et al 1 report on the results of a randomized, investigator-blind multicenter comparison …