"Ultraviolet Therapy" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The use of ultraviolet electromagnetic radiation in the treatment of disease, usually of the skin. This is the part of the sun's spectrum that causes sunburn and tanning. Ultraviolet A, used in PUVA, is closer to visible light and less damaging than Ultraviolet B, which is ionizing.
| Descriptor ID |
D014467
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.774.945
|
| Concept/Terms |
Ultraviolet Therapy- Ultraviolet Therapy
- Actinotherapy
- Actinotherapies
- Therapy, Ultraviolet
- Therapies, Ultraviolet
- Ultraviolet Therapies
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Ultraviolet Therapy".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Ultraviolet Therapy".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Ultraviolet Therapy" by people in this website by year, and whether "Ultraviolet Therapy" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text,
click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
To return to the timeline,
click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Ultraviolet Therapy" by people in Profiles.
-
Outcomes Using Narrowband UVB Phototherapy for Acute Cutaneous Graft Versus Host Disease in Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2021 01; 43(1):e151-e153.
-
Corneal cross-linking: engineering a predictable model. Crit Rev Biomed Eng. 2014; 42(3-4):229-48.
-
The role of narrowband UV-B plus alefacept combination therapy in the treatment of psoriasis. Arch Dermatol. 2008 Aug; 144(8):1067-8; author reply 1068-9.
-
Diagnosis and treatment of vitamin D deficiency. Expert Opin Pharmacother. 2008 Jan; 9(1):107-18.
-
Ultraviolet-B radiation increases serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels: the effect of UVB dose and skin color. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2007 Oct; 57(4):588-93.
-
Therapeutic briefs. I. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1980 Nov; 3(5):533-7.