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Phototherapy

Known as: Mental Health @ None @ Light Therapy @ None @ None @ None @ None, Therapies, Photoradiation, Therapy, Photoradiation 
The treatment of disease with certain types of light. Phototherapy can use lasers, LED, fluorescent lamps, and ultraviolet or infrared radiation.
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CABINET, PHOTOTHERAPY (PUVA)Dermatitis, PhototoxicIllumination TechniqueInfrared Photocoagulation Therapy

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PhotochemotherapyUltraviolet Therapynewborn phototherapy

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Physical therapyTherapeutic radiology procedure

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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Multifunctional core-shell nanoparticles as highly efficient imaging and photosensitizing agents.
Here we report the preparation of a novel multifunctional core-shell nanocomposite material that contains a nonporous dye-doped… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Antidepressant effects of light therapy combined with sleep deprivation are influenced by a functional polymorphism within the promoter of the serotonin transporter gene
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Outcome for children treated with fetal intravascular transfusions because of severe blood group antagonism.
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Immunological suppression in mice treated with hematoporphyrin derivative photoradiation.
Hematoporphyrin derivative (HPD) is a potent photosensitizer which localizes preferentially in malignant tumors. Parenteral… 
Highly Cited
1984
Highly Cited
1984
Studies on the mechanism of tumor destruction by photoradiation therapy.
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Hematoporphyrin derivative and laser photoradiation in the diagnosis and treatment of bladder cancer.
Highly Cited
1982
Highly Cited
1982
Components of hematoporphyrin derivatives and their tumor-localizing capacity.
Hematoporphyrin derivative (HPD), a complex mixture of porphyrins derived from hematoporphyrin, has been used for localization… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Outpatient phototherapy for psoriasis.
Using a new protocol with varied exposure increments, we found that, in 18 of 20 patients with psoriasis vulgaris who were given… 
Highly Cited
1978
Highly Cited
1978
Oral psoralen photochemotherapy of atopic eczema
Oral administration of 8‐methoxypsoralen followed by exposure to a high‐intensity longwave ultraviolet treatment system resulted… 
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Combined 8‐methoxypsoralen and black light therapy of psoriasis TECHNIQUE AND RESULTS
Seventy‐four patients with psoriasis underwent a combined topical treatment with an 8‐methoxypsoralen solution and black light… 
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