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| Year : 2001 | Volume
: 67
| Issue : 2 | Page : 66--68 |
Disease concomitance in psoriasis: A clinical study of 61 cases
Emy Alexander, Jerome Pinto, Ganesh S Pal, Narendra Kamath, Maria Kuruvilla
Department of Skin and STD, Kasturba Medical Collge, Mangalore. Karnataka-575 001, India
Correspondence Address:
Emy Alexander
Mavilethu House, Cherukole P.O, Mavelikara, Kerala-690104
India
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PMID: 17664710 
Sixty-one patients with psoriasis were studied for concomitant diseases and compared with 61 age and sex-matched controls. Concomitant cutaneous diseases most often seen with psoriasis were lichen simplex chronicus (16.3%), verruca vulgaris (9.8%) and me Iasina (4.9%). Of the systemic disorders, diabetes showed the highest frequency (13.1%) followed by hypertension (8.1%). Two patients had HIV infection (3.2%). Both the patients had severe and atypical lesions.
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