Background: Treatments currently used in acrosclerosis for patients with systemic sclerosis
(SS) are not very efficient and are associated with adverse effects. Several reports concern …

Localized scleroderma is a chronic inflammatory disease primarily of the dermis and
subcutaneous fat that ultimately leads to a scar-like sclerosis of connective tissue. The …

Almost one hundred years ago, Niels Finsen, the" father" of photomedicine, was awarded
the 1903 Nobel Prize for Medicine based on his scientific observations that light could be …

Introduction: Photodynamic therapy for psoriasis showed promise in the early 1990s with
reports of plaque clearance following topical aminolevulinic acid–photodynamic therapy …

Phototherapy is an effective treatment modality for several skin diseases which has been in
use from the era of the Egyptians. Insight into its mode of action has gradually accumulated …

Objective Localized scleroderma is a skin fibrosing disorder that, if untreated, may result in
severe disability. The purpose of this systematic review is to compare the present evidence …

Abstract Purpose of Review Extracorporeal photochemotherapy (photopheresis, ECP) is a
cell-based immunomodulatory treatment that separates leukocytes from peripheral blood …

SummaryThis article reviews recent literature on phototherapy for psoriasis, particularly
narrowband UVB. The efficacy, safety, tolerability and acceptance of phototherapy are …

Background: The management of systemic sclerosis remains unsatisfactory. Thus far, the
action of extracorporeal photopheresis (ECP) in severe systemic scleroderma has been …

This review provides an overview on the current state of phototherapy for psoriasis.
Phototherapy, whose first application for psoriasis dates back to almost a century now, is still …