Successful Treatment of Extragenital Lichen Sclerosus with Narrow-band UVB Phototherapy

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  • Lanyu Sun Dermatology department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Unidade Local de Saúde Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal
  • Diogo de Sousa Dermatology department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Unidade Local de Saúde Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5415-887X
  • Pedro de Vasconcelos Dermatology department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Unidade Local de Saúde Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7480-1228
  • Sónia Fernandes Dermatology department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Unidade Local de Saúde Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6936-2048
  • Paulo Filipe Dermatology department, Hospital de Santa Maria, Unidade Local de Saúde Santa Maria, Lisbon, Portugal; Faculty of Medicine, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal; Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes (iMM), Lisbon, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7337-6493

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https://doi.org/10.2340/actadv.v105.43470

Keywords:

narrow band UVB radiation, phototherapy, extragenital lichen sclerosus

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2025-05-12

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Sun, L., de Sousa, D., de Vasconcelos, P., Fernandes, S., & Filipe, P. (2025). Successful Treatment of Extragenital Lichen Sclerosus with Narrow-band UVB Phototherapy. Acta Dermato-Venereologica, 105, adv43470. https://doi.org/10.2340/actadv.v105.43470

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