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Dead Sea treatment - principle for outpatient use in atopic dermatitis: safety and efficacy of synchronous balneophototherapy using narrowband UVB and bathing in Dead Sea salt solution Volume 12, numéro 6, November - December 2002

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Department of Dermatology, University of Regensburg, 93042 Regensburg, Germany.
  • Page(s) : 543-8
  • Année de parution : 2002

Since the fifties patients with AD have been treated successfully at the Dead Sea [1-10]. Ultraviolet sunlight and salt water form the two main components of the treatment principle. To use the therapeutic advantages also for outpatients in Europe, a special treatment system simulating these conditions was developed. As light source, narrowband TL-01 lamps (311 nm) by Philips (Eindhoven, Netherlands) were selected in view of clinical studies, [...]