Psoriasis

Psoriatic Arthritis: A Comparative Radiographic Study of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Arthritis Associated with Psoriasis

“…Since then there has been much interest in and argument about psoriatic arthritis. Definitions of the condition have been various: an arthritis confined to the distal interphalangeal joints associated with psoriasis (Bauer, Bennett, and Zeller, 1941), an atypical arthritis associated with atypical psoriasis (Dawson, 1937), and a form of atrophic arthritis associated with psoriasis exhibiting a reasonable amount of synchronous activity as evidenced by remissions and relapses in arthritis and cutaneous manifestations (Epstein, 1939;Jeghers and Robinson, 1937;Lane and Crawford, 1937). Other authors have denied its existence as a separate entity, feeling that it represented the coincidence of two common diseases, psoriasis and rheumatoid arthritis (Brocq, 1910;Gribble, 1955;Margolis, 1941).…”