Severe recalcitrant nail psoriasis responding dramatically to infliximab: Report of two patients

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 520-522

  Hussain, W ^a   Coulson, I ^b   Owen, C ^b  

^a HOPE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b BURNLEY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLECALCIFEROL DERIVATIVE; CYCLOSPORIN; ETRETIN; HYDROXYUREA; INFLIXIMAB; METHOTREXATE; PROCOLLAGEN; PROCOLLAGEN 3; RETINOL DERIVATIVE; STEROID; TOPICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARM; CASE REPORT; DERMATOLOGY LIFE QUALITY INDEX; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISTAL PARESTHESIA; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG INDUCED HEADACHE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERKERATOSIS; HYPERTENSION; JOB PERFORMANCE; KIDNEY DYSFUNCTION; LEG; LETTER; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NAIL DISEASE; NAIL PSORIASIS; NAIL PSORIASIS SEVERITY INDEX; NAUSEA; ONYCHOLYSIS; PAIN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; SCALP; SCORING SYSTEM; TWENTY NAIL DYSTROPHY;

ADULT; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAIL DISEASES; PSORIASIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 45149124289     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2008.02738.x     Document Type: Letter

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