Clinical and histopathological study of psoriasis
Journal Title: Medpulse International Journal of Medicine - Year 2017, Vol 4, Issue 2
Abstract
Background: Psoriasis is a common characteristic lesions consisting of chronic prominences and in the scalp common Objectives: 1.To Study various forms of psoriasis to differentiate other papulosquamous disorders attended the outpatient Department of Dermatology and Venereology during a period extending from for study. Name, age, sex, occupation noted with detailed history with reference to ge of onset, site of onset, past treatment factors, family history of the disease, other systemic Patients not willing for biopsy, patients with systemic illness and pregnant women were excluded from the study. A complete general physical examination was done and the findings were reco with special reference to the morphology and the sites of involvement. A fresh lesion was scraped with a clean glass slide to find out the type of scaling and to look for Auspitz sign. addition, thorough systemic examination was done in all patients. was the commonest clinical type seen followed by guttate(8%), (2%),generalised pustular psoriasis(4%) and psoriatic arthropathy(1%).one patient with erythrodermic psoriasis and one patient with chronic plaque psoriasis had concomitant arthritis. 40yrs.Male to female ratio concludes that psoriasis is commonly seen in the third and fourth decade and more number of males were affected than females. on set being earlier in females than males. M prone for trauma and agriculturists constitute a predominant group in this area. Because the clinical presentation is varied, the definitive diagnosis may depend on histological examination varied as the clinical presentations diagnosis of psoriasis to be made.
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Noshin N Abdu, Gangadhar Bugude, Mallikarjun M, Deepadarshan K
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