Clinical evaluation of a more rapid and sensitive Psoriasis Assessment Severity Score (PASS), and its comparison with the classic method of Psoriasis Area and Severity Index (PASI), before and after climatotherapy at the Dead-Sea

International Journal of Dermatology

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 913-918

  Harari, Marco ^a,b,c   Shani, Jashovam ^a,b,c   Hristakieva, Eugenia ^a,b,c   Stanimirovic, Andrija ^a,b,c   Seidl, Wladimir ^a,b,c   Burdo, Asia ^a,b,c  

^a DMZ Rehabilitation Clinic   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c TRAKIA UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY REGIONS; CLIMATOTHERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DESQUAMATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISRAEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PSORIASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN INFILTRATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BALNEOLOGY; DESERT CLIMATE; FEMALE; HELIOTHERAPY; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSORIASIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0034496117     PISSN: 00119059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-4362.2000.00017.x     Document Type: Article

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