Evaluation of treatment with Sicorten cream by day and Sicorten ointment at night in patients with chronic psoriasis.

In an open non -comparative trial forty ambulant patients with chronic psoriasis vulgaris were treated with non -occlusive application of Sicorten® cream twice by day and Sicorten® ointment once at night for up to 30 days. This combined regimen yielded good (marked improvement) to very good (complete clearance) results in 92.5% of the patients treated. The onset of therapeutic effect was observed within 3 days of starting the treatment in 95% of the patients. All forty patients tolerated Sicorten® topicais well and no adverse effects due to either local skin intolerability or the transcutaneous systemic absorption of the corticoid were observed in this trial, nor were any instances of skin atrophy reported.