Phototherapy is a widely used treatment for multiple skin diseases, but particularly in psoriasis [1,2]. Many modalities for phototherapy have been used and investigated in the treatment of psoriasis patients: UVA with psoralens (so called local or systemic PUVA), broadband UVB (BB-UVB) and narrowband UVB (NB-UVB). These UV-treatments can be given in different schemes daily, twice or thrice wee...

BACKGROUND Home ultraviolet B (UVB) treatment is a much-debated treatment, especially with regard to effectiveness, safety and side effects. However, it is increasingly being prescribed, especially in the Netherlands. Despite ongoing discussions, no randomised research has been performed, and only two studies actually compare two groups of patients. Thus, firm evidence to support or discourage ...

BACKGROUND Moderate and severe forms of psoriasis require phototherapy and / or systemic medications. Both UVA and UVB can be used to treat cases of moderate and severe psoriasis, and the effectiveness of both has been proven. OBJECTIVE to access the prescription behavior relating to two types of phototherapy for treating psoriasis refractory to topical treatment: narrowband UVB (NB-UVB) or p...

Narrowband ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) has been widely used in dermatological phototherapy. As for the application of NB-UVB phototherapy to graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), we previously reported that it was highly efficacious for cutaneous lesions of acute GVHD (aGVHD) and that expansion of regulatory T (Treg) cells induced by NB-UVB might be one of the mechanisms. In order to examine whether NB-...

BACKGROUND Progressive macular hypomelanosis is a common dermatosis in various continents. Its cause is unknown and proposed treatments have had little effect. OBJECTIVES To determine epidemiological aspects of progressive macular hypomelanosis in patients referred to a phototherapy clinic between 1997 and 2008 and to evaluate therapeutic response to PUVA (psoralen + UVA) photochemotherapy or...

UVB phototherapy is widely used for the treatment of psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, however, only limited reports evaluate its usefulness in the treatment of mycosis fungoides. We introduced UVB phototherapy to five patients with early-stage mycosis fungoides. All of them were classified as stage IB (erythematous stage), and none had obtained a satisfactory response to other therapies. After ...

Objectives This is a protocol for Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: To assess the effects of phototherapy regimen (e.g. NB‐UVB, BB‐UVB, PUVA, UVA1) people with atopic eczema.

46 Correspondence Treatment of childhood mycosis fungoides with narrow-band phototherapy Mycosis fungoides (MF) is a form of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, usually arising in mid to late adulthood. 1 It is rarely described in children. 2,3 The most common presentation of MF diagnosed during childhood and adolescence is limited or generalized patch-stage disease without lymph node enlargement or wit...

BACKGROUND Only a few clinical trials have been performed on the treatment of generalized vitiligo in children. Recently, narrow-band UVB therapy has been reported to be an effective and safe therapeutic option in adult patients with vitiligo. OBJECTIVE We studied the efficacy and safety of UVB (311 nm) therapy in children with generalized vitiligo and evaluated the effect of the therapy on t...

The beneficial effect of sunburn-spectrum ultraviolet (UVB) phototherapy on uremic pruritus was studied. Seven patients were treated twice weekly for 4 weeks with UVB to one half of the body and placebo phototherapy to the other half. All patients noted generalized improvement without localization of benefit to the UVB side, suggesting a systemic effect of UVB. A comparison of three schedules v...