Picture of plaque psoriasis on the legs. Source: iStock.com. The types of psoriasis include: Plaque psoriasis: Plaque psoriasis typically affects elbows, knees, scalp, and lower back, but can also affect palms, soles of feet, navel region, and nails. Plaque psoriasis is marked by red, rais...
Images courtesy of Randy Park, MD. Psoriasis is a chronic, noncontagious, multifactorial inflammatory skin condition that has several subtypes. The five major forms are plaque, inverse, guttate, erythrodermic, and pustular psoriasis.[1-6]The classic lesion is a pink plaque topped with a micaceou...
While any part of your body can be affected, psoriasis plaques most often develop on the elbows, knees, scalp, back, palms, and feet. Like other autoinflammatory diseases, psoriasis occurs when your immune system — which normally attacks infectious germs — begins to attack healthy cells instead...
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Your symptomsaffect your feet, hands, face, or genitals. You have especially itchy, red, and painful plaques and scales. Your symptoms are affecting your day-to-day life. How Do Psoriasis and Eczema Look Different? Here’s How to Tell the Difference (With Images) ...
SeePsoriasis: Manifestations, Management Options, and Mimics, a Critical Images slideshow, to help recognize the major psoriasis subtypes and distinguish them from other skin lesions. Signs and symptoms Signs and symptoms of psoriasis may include the following: ...
Atopic dermatitis, the most common type of dermatitis, typically begins in infancy and can last into adulthood. It is characterized by redness, thickening, and scaling of the skin in patches, typically on theface,neck, hands, feet, in the crook of the elbow, or behind theknee. The skin ...
See Psoriasis: Manifestations, Management Options, and Mimics, a Critical Images slideshow, to help recognize the major psoriasis subtypes and distinguish them from other skin lesions. Signs and symptoms Psoriatic plaques are characterized as follows: ...
and soles of feet, primarily in the European cohort. Non-HLA SNPS also seemed to drive psoriasis on the face, primarily in the Other/Mixed cohort. These findings are novel, as currently there are a lack of studies investigating the role of non-HLA genetic factors on these body locations. ...
highly vascular warts called condylomata acuminata. These warts are transmitted through sexual contact and may become cancerous. By contrast, common viral warts of the hands, feet, and other non-mucosal surfaces are not sexually transmitted and rarely become cancerous. Viral warts on non-mucosal ...