A y-year follow-up study of ninety patients with psoriasis

Abstract

Of 142 patients with psoriasis who attended a dermatological clinic in 1966, ninety were interviewed and re‐examined 7 years later. Twenty‐eight patients (29%) had been treated at home, fifty‐eight (64%) had been treated with the Ingram regime as out‐patients, and sixteen (17%) had been admitted. It was concluded that those treated as out‐patients had a longer duration of remission than those treated at home. In these out‐patients, the only significant indicator of the outcome was the type of psoriasis at presentation. Those presenting with guttate psoriasis had a better prognosis.