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The advent of phototherapy for the treatment of jaundice in the newborn, originally reported in the studies of Cremer et al.1 in 1958, has stimulated further investigation of the transport, bind ing, and metabolism of bilirubin. It is not an exaggeration to say that this mode of therapy is considered by many to have been responsible for much of the recent broad medical interest in the photobiological effects of visible light. Because of this there has been a further interest in the study of varied light sources — fluorescent to laser.
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Sisson, T.R.C. (1982). Advances in Phototherapy of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia. In: Hélène, C., Charlier, M., Montenay-Garestier, T., Laustriat, G. (eds) Trends in Photobiology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9203-7_28
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