Background: Psoriasis is a chronic, recurrent, inflammatory skin disease that alters the quality of life. Systemic therapy and biologic agents are prescribed for severe widespread psoriasis, but these drugs may have systemic side effects immune suppression. Narrowband Ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) phototherapy remains one most effective safe treatments psoriasis.Methods: This study was an observationa...

Abstract Vitiligo is a disease that causes the loss of skin color in patches due to melanin pigmentation specific areas skin. Although several hypotheses have been proposed, leading theory still auto-immune etiology linked genetic mutations. can also be associated with autoimmune diseases. There no curative treatment for vitiligo but, modalities are considered. Topical therapies like steroids a...

Background: Phototherapy is a safe and effective treatment modality for skin diseases in children such as psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, pityriasis lichenoides, vitiligo, cutaneous cell lymphoma, rubra pilaris, other disorders. It reported to be with less side effects compare the administration of systemic medicine. Short long term should taken into account when applying this model therapy, espe...

A 41-year-old man presented with a ten-year history of recurrent erythema and swelling of skin that occurred following sun exposure even as little as ten minutes. The lesion affected only on the sun exposed area. A phototesting was carried out and revealed that urticaria was induced following ultraviolet A (UVA) and visible light exposure. Solar urticaria (SU) from UVA and visible light was dia...

BACKGROUND The combination of a Chinese herbal medicine (CHM) bath and narrowband ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) improved the efficacy of NB-UVB treatment of psoriasis vulgaris, but bath therapy is inconvenient. Oral CHM plus NB-UVB has been tested in clinical practice. This study aims to evaluate whether adding oral CHM could be beneficial for NB-UVB therapy by a systematic review and meta-analysis. ...

Background: While phototherapy is a well-established treatment for many dermatoses, data from the literature regarding its use in elderly patients are quite limited. oBjective: In this study, we aimed to determine the phototherapy indications in geriatric patients and to evaluate the effectiveness and reliability of phototherapy in this group. Methods: This study included 95 patients of 65 year...

INTRODUCTION Several therapeutic options are available for the treatment of vitiligo; among these phototherapy and topical steroids are the most widely documented. A topical formulation of 0.05% clobetasol propionate foam (CPF) has been introduced in the market, but no data are available about the efficacy and tolerability of this new formulation in the treatment of vitiligo. The aim of this st...