Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.

In this report, we describe the use of extracorporeal photochemotherapy in n the treatment of two patients with rapidly advancing progressive systemic sclerosis. Both patients experienced improvement in the cutaneous as well as the systemic manifestations of their disease while undergoing therapy. T...

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Autores principales: Rook, A. H., Freundlich, B., Nahass, G. T., Washko, R., Macelis, B., Skolnicki, M., Bromley, P., Witmer, W. K., Jegasothy, B. V.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1989
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2589144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2636803
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author Rook, A. H.
Freundlich, B.
Nahass, G. T.
Washko, R.
Macelis, B.
Skolnicki, M.
Bromley, P.
Witmer, W. K.
Jegasothy, B. V.
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Freundlich, B.
Nahass, G. T.
Washko, R.
Macelis, B.
Skolnicki, M.
Bromley, P.
Witmer, W. K.
Jegasothy, B. V.
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spelling pubmed-25891442008-11-28 Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis. Rook, A. H. Freundlich, B. Nahass, G. T. Washko, R. Macelis, B. Skolnicki, M. Bromley, P. Witmer, W. K. Jegasothy, B. V. Yale J Biol Med Research Article In this report, we describe the use of extracorporeal photochemotherapy in n the treatment of two patients with rapidly advancing progressive systemic sclerosis. Both patients experienced improvement in the cutaneous as well as the systemic manifestations of their disease while undergoing therapy. The potential therapeutic mechanisms are discussed. Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine 1989 /pmc/articles/PMC2589144/ /pubmed/2636803 Text en
spellingShingle Research Article
Rook, A. H.
Freundlich, B.
Nahass, G. T.
Washko, R.
Macelis, B.
Skolnicki, M.
Bromley, P.
Witmer, W. K.
Jegasothy, B. V.
Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.
title Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.
title_full Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.
title_fullStr Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.
title_full_unstemmed Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.
title_short Treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.
title_sort treatment of autoimmune disease with extracorporeal photochemotherapy: progressive systemic sclerosis.
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2589144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2636803
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