Psoriatic Arthropathy In A Black African A Case Report
Authors
Akintayo OguntonaFiles
Key Information
Journal
Published in Vol. 2 No. 02 May/June (2009) of Western Nigeria Journal of Medical Sciences.
WNJMS is published by UNIOSUN Teaching Hospital, Osun State, Nigeria (the training institution of Osun State University, Osogbo, Nigeria). The journal is a peer-reviewed, open-access publication of scholarly research in all fields of medical and health profession.
About the JournalAbstract
We report the case of a 40-year-old Military Officer with psoriatic skin lesions who developed arthropathy a complication said to be rare in the Black race. He was successfully managed with psoralen and methotrexate and the case is reported to increase the awareness of practitioners of the occurrence of the complication in blacks
Key Words: Psoriasis, Black, HLA antigen, Joint
deformity, Methotrexate.
