PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J. P. DesGroseilliers
AU  - S. M. Reilly
AU  - A. E. Cullen
TI  - The importance of patient selection for photochemotherapy in psoriasis
DP  - 1981 Apr 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 1016--1018
VI  - 124
IP  - 8
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/124/8/1016.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/124/8/1016.full
SO  - CMAJ1981 Apr 15; 124
AB  - Twenty-four patients with psoriasis were treated with orally administered 8-methoxypsoralen followed by exposure to high-intensity long-wavelength ultraviolet radiation (PUVA) at a psoriasis day care centre. Among the 20 with plaque type psoriasis the condition cleared in 13 (65%), after a mean of 20.7 treatment sessions, and improved but failed to clear in 4 (20%); the treatment failed in the other 3 (15%). The other four patients had erythrodermic, pustular or inflammatory psoriasis, and all failed to respond to PUVA therapy. Factors to be considered in patient selection for this form of therapy are the type of psoriasis, the patient's skin type and th proportion of the body surface area involved.