Original Article

The Journal of Investigative Dermatology (1959) 32, 355–361; doi:10.1038/jid.1959.60

Part V: Clinical Applications of Psoralens, and Related Materials: Experimentally Induced Reactions to Ultraviolet Light I. Polymorphous Light Eruption and Phototoxicity to Drugs1

Presented at the Brook Lodge Invitational Symposium on the Psoralens sponsored by The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 27–28, 1958.

Milton M Cahn MD, Edwin J Levy MD and Bertram Shaffer MD, DSc (Med)

1 From the Department of Dermatology (Dr. Donald M. Pillsbury, Director), University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia 4, Pa.

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