Amyloidosis complicating psoriasis.

نویسندگان

  • B Amir-Ansari
  • A M Joekes
  • M C Parkinson
چکیده

Introduction In major reviews of amyloidosis (Glenner, Terry and Isersky, 1973; Stirling, 1975) psoriasis is not listed as one of the predisposing causes nor is it mentioned as an aetiological factor in renal amyloidosis (Heptinstall, 1974). Case reports have drawn attention to amyloidosis in patients with pustular psoriasis (Berger, 1969; Mackie and Burton, 1974) and psoriatic arthritis (Reed and Wright, 1966; Ferguson and Wilson Downie, 1968; Brownstein and Helwig, 1970; Lambert et al., 1973; Qureshi et al., 1977). In this paper a patient with erythrodermic psoriasis and fatal amyloidosis is described.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Postgraduate medical journal

دوره 58 680  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1982