Can We Miss Pigmented Lesions in Psoriasis Patients?
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2012-04-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
In psoriasis patients, thick psoriatic plaques can obscure these lesions, and clinicians rely
heavily on visual inspection to recognize suspicious or atypical pigmented lesions. However,
successful systemic treatment and subsequent clearing of psoriatic plaques may allow
clinicians to better evaluate pigmented lesions, thereby increasing the likelihood of early
identification and treatment of suspicious lesions such as nonmelanoma skin cancer and
malignant melanoma.