[The treatment of herpes zoster by ultraviolet actinotherapy. Study of 200 cases (author's transl)]. / Traitement du zona par actinothérapie ultraviolette. Etude de 200 cas

The authors analysed the cases of 200 patients treated for early herpes zoster by ultraviolet actinotherapy. This simple treatment should ideally be applied: - to clean skin, without dye nor ointment; - over the entire root area, and not only to the vesicles; - obtaining from the outset frank erythema, uniform, and without a healthy skin interval. Under these conditions, 95% of successful results were obtained in 3 to 8 days. The occasional failures appear to be related either to faulty technique or to a deep-seated localisation beyond the fied of action of the ultraviolet rays.