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Ultraviolet phototherapy for pruritus
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- DOI: 10.1111/j.1529-8019.2005.00032.x
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Ultraviolet phototherapy for pruritus
Dermatol Ther.
2005 Jul-Aug.
Abstract
Ultraviolet-based therapy has been used to treat various pruritic conditions including pruritus in chronic renal failure, atopic dermatitis, HIV, aquagenic pruritus and urticaria, solar, chronic, and idiopathic urticaria, urticaria pigmentosa, polycythemia vera, pruritic folliculitis of pregnancy, breast carcinoma skin infiltration, Hodgkin's lymphoma, chronic liver disease, and acquired perforating dermatosis, among others. Various mechanisms of action for phototherapy have been posited. Treatment limitations, side effects, and common dosing protocols are reviewed.
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