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Three healthy men with psoriatic plaques unresponsive to tar, anthralin, and UVB were treated with 2450 MHz microwave heating for 30 minutes at 42 degrees C. Two patients had plaques over bony prominences. Pain developed in both patients, and one had a hypotensive episode during the first treatment.
Neither the pathogenesis of psoriasis nor the mechanism whereby seemingly diverse therapies alter the disease is understood. In this study, several antipsoriatic agents were tested for their effects on the skin cell lymphocyte reaction (SLR), an immunologic assay in which HLA-DR antigens on
Current concepts in the treatment of psoriasis are reviewed, including: traditional modalities of dithranol (anthralin), tar, and corticosteroids alone or in combination with other agents; phototherapy and photochemotherapy; experimental studies with the aromatic retinoid etretinate and related