Complementary therapies for chronic plaque psoriasis
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Chronic plaque psoriasis.
Chronic plaque psoriasis, the most common form of psoriasis, is a papulosquamous disease defined by erythematous plaques with a silvery scale. The diagnosis usually is clinical, but occasionally a biopsy is necessary. Psoriasis affects 0.6 to 4.8 percent of the U.S. population, and about 30 percent of affected patients have a first-degree relative with the disease. Psoriasis is a T-cell-mediate...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd011243.pub2