Treatment of Psoriasis

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Weinberg, Jeffrey M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Milestones in Drug Therapy
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Pharmacology.; Dermatology.; Biomedicine.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.

Psoriasis is an inherited skin disease that has been diagnosed in 4.5 million adults in the United States. About 10 percent to 30 percent of people with psoriasis also develop psoriatic arthritis, which causes pain, stiffness and swelling in and around the joints. The book reviews the clinical manif...