A comparison of twice-daily calcipotriol ointment with once-daily short-contact dithranol cream therapy: a randomized controlled trial of supervised treatment of psoriasis vulgaris in a day-care setting

Abstract

The hypothesis that calcipotriol ointment might be at least as effective as dithranol cream in the day-care setting could not be proven in the present study. Whereas calcipotriol has become a mainstay in the routine outpatient treatment of psoriasis not requiring a day-care setting, dithranol treatment, being difficult as a routine outpatient therapy, has increased efficacy and improved tolerability if the treatment is carried out in a day-care setting.