Παρασκευή 14 Δεκεμβρίου 2018

PUVASOL and NBUVB in patients with vitiligo p. 96 Vaaruni Ravishankar, Santoshdev P Rathod, Siddhartha Saikia, Raju G Chaudhary, Rekha B Solanki DOI:10.4103/Pigmentinternational.Pigmentinternational_39_17 Introduction: Vitiligo is an acquired, hypomelanotic disease, characterized by circumscribed depigmented macules. Phototherapy, which is the use of ultraviolet irradiation with or without exogenous photosensitizer is a well established treatment option. Psoralens with sunlight as the source of ultraviolet A-rays is known as PUVASOL. Narrow band Ultraviolet B phototherapy (NBUVB; 311–313 nm) has been introduced over the past decade. Aims: To study the clinical effectiveness and assess the safety of NBUVB and PUVASOL therapy in Vitiligo patients. Methods: The patients were randomly allocated in to two groups containing 25 patients each. Group A patients received NBUVB with an initial dose of 250 mJ/cm2, incremented by 20% with each subsequent visit till optimum dose was achiev


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