A y-year follow-up study of ninety patients with psoriasis

Clinical course of guttate psoriasis: Long‐term follow‐up study

“…Psoriasis is clinically a heterogeneous disease with several clinical subtypes and it is impossible to predict the exact clinical course of psoriasis in any particular case. The guttate form is generally believed to have a better prognosis than other types of psoriasis 11,12 . However, progression of the guttate form of psoriasis into the chronic plaque form was not uncommon in our department.…”

“…Guttate psoriasis can be the first manifestation of psoriasis or an acute flare form of preexisting chronic plaque psoriasis 8,9 . It is generally accepted that guttate psoriasis has a better prognosis than other types of psoriasis because it involutes rapidly and usually has a longer remission period 9–11 . However, the eruption may progress into chronic plaque psoriasis or recur even in the case of spontaneous involution 10 .…”

Dead‐Sea climatotherapy versus other modalities of treatment for psoriasis: comparative cost‐effectiveness

“…Reports where the recurrence and duration of remission were recorded numerically were selected for this comparative study, and presented in this review. Out of 142 psoriatics who attended a British Clinic in 1966, 80% were cleared after a 2‐week hospitalization, as compared with 45% cleared after a 4‐month home treatment, and 58% after daily outpatient treatments, but the outpatients had a longer duration of remission than those treated at home or in the hospital 16 . For 300 American psoriatics treated with the Goeckerman regimen in day‐care centers, the average duration of treatment to produce over 90% clearing of the skin was 18 days.…”

“…Out of 142 psoriatics who attended a British Clinic in 1966, 80% were cleared after a 2-week hospitalization, as compared with 45% cleared after a 4-month home treatment, and 58% after daily outpatient treatments, but the outpatients had a longer duration of remission than those treated at home or in the hospital. 16 For 300 American psoriatics treated with the Goeckerman regimen in day-care centers, the average duration of treatment to produce over 90% clearing of the skin was 18 days. The authors concluded that the cost-effectiveness of this regimen in the day-care center is comparable with PUVA therapy and is the major choice of therapy in severe or recalcitrant psoriasis.…”

Editorial: Back to the community.

“…Tar and dithranol are too messy to be popular for home use (the non-staining alternatives are less effective), and hospital outpatient clinics providing a local treatment regimen have a definite place. 7 The combination of application of 8-methoxypsoralen and exposure to "black light" (wavelength < 360 nm) has recently been described as a clean method8 for use at such a clinic. Some patients come to accept their spots philosophically and cease to treat them except with an emollient, while others never become reconciled.…”