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JOHN F. MADDEN, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1939;39(2):268-277.

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Psoriasis has been a subject for dermatologic research since the disease first became known. Excellent clinical descriptions and exact histologic studies of all phases of the disease have been recorded, but the cause remains unknown and the treatment is unsatisfactory. A detailed review of the voluminous literature on psoriasis is not necessary in an experimental paper of this type. Grütz and others have expressed belief that disturbances of fat metabolism cause psoriasis and that a low fat diet is beneficial in its treatment. This study helps to evaluate these assertions and shows certain other facts concerning the disease. Only those patients who showed definite clinical and histologic evidence of psoriasis were included in the group studied.

Rosen, Rosenfeld and Krasnow¹ concluded that hypocholesteremia existed in psoriasis, while Grütz and Bürger² found marked hypercholesteremia. There are several such contradictions in the literature.

It is generally accepted that psoriatic scale . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ST. PAUL

From the Ancker Hospital and the Division of Dermatology and Syphilology, University of Minnesota, Dr. H. E. Michelson, Director.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Dermatology and Syphilology at the Eighty-Ninth Annual Session of the American Medical Association, San Francisco, June 17, 1938.

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