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Arch Dermatol. 2005;141:1589-1590.

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More treatments for psoriasis have been introduced during the past 25 years than for all other diseases in dermatology combined. The impact of those treatments on all dermatologic disease has been profound. For example, psoralen–UV-A was introduced for psoriasis but has changed the treatment of cutaneous T-cell lymphoma.¹ Narrowband UV-B was developed for psoriasis but has had a major impact on the treatment of vitiligo.² Acitretin and its precursor etretinate were both approved for psoriasis but have found an important role in skin cancer prevention.³

The precise prevalence of psoriasis varies from study to study, but all surveys report the prevalence as less than 5%, including the current article by Gelfand et al.⁴ How is it that a condition that affects a small percentage of the population has had such a dramatic effect on our specialty? Perhaps it is the chronic nature of psoriasis or the severe manifestations that are . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Mark G. Lebwohl, MD

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