Background: Calcipotriol has become a first-line treatment for psoriasis. Its efficacy and safety have been shown in many comparative clinical trials carried out in outpatients. In a comparative study in patients visi...
Background: The US National Psoriasis Foundation recently recommended that PASI 50 and PASI 75 response rates be used in clinical trials to enable comparisons across studies of different psoriasis therapies. To date, ...
Objective: During the last decades, management of intertriginous psoriasis (IP) has been unsatisfactory because of the adverse effects associated with long-term corticosteroid application and the lack of alternatives....
Background: Narrow band ultraviolet B (NB-UVB) phototherapy has been used successfully for the treatment of vitiligo. Recently, topical calcipotriol has also been claimed to be effective, either as monotherapy or as a...
Background: Ointments, classically used for the treatment of dermatological diseases, are monophasic viscous semisolid formulations. According to the proportion of their compounds, they have physicochemical and organo...
Background: Psoriasis of the hands and feet is a chronic disease which is often resistant to the usual topical therapies. It has considerable morbidity and seriously affects the quality of life of patients. Objective:...
Background: Recently, it has been shown that UVB phototherapymay bemore effect ive than UVA in the treatment of vitiligo. Currently, however, no studies have c ompared the efficacy of UVB 311 nm and broad-band UVB the...
Circumscribed palmar hypokeratosis is a recently described condition that consists of a solitary area of depressed skin affecting the palm(or sole). Its histopathological features include a thinned horny layer, a slig...
Background: Daivobetis a once-daily treatment of psoriasis vulgaris containing betamethasone dipropionate and calcipotriol in a new ointment vehicle. Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of once-daily treatme...