OCULAR PSORIASIS
- 1 July 1953
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
- Vol. 68 (1) , 44-49
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archderm.1953.01540070047006
Abstract
PSORIASIS is one of the diseases encountered frequently in the practice of the dermatologist. In the textbooks of dermatology all possible locations and involvements of psoriasis are discussed in detail, except one: psoriasis affecting the eye. Why the dermatologist, who is interested in eye manifestations of syphilis, rosacea, pemphigus, and other diseases, should not be interested in psoriasis of the eye, poses an unanswered question. Is ocular psoriasis so rare or unimportant, or should the diagnosis of this condition be left entirely to the ophthalmologist? Is the ophthalmologist sufficiently aware of the possibility of psoriasis to diagnose it correctly? In the ophthalmological field de Schweinitz,1 in his textbooks, mentioned a number of dermatological conditions affecting the eye, but fails to list psoriasis. Fuchs2 states: In the case of other exanthemata, too, for instance in macular and papular syphilides, in pityriasis, psoriasis, ichthyosis, herpes iris, dematitis herpetiformis, lepra,Keywords
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