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Psoriasis is a common chronic recurrent inflammatory skin disease. It is often triggered by endogenous and/or exogenous stimuli and has a genetic predisposition. It can break out at any point in life and can affect 2–3% of the general population. Psoriasis is extremely polymorphic, defies a simple classification, and is histologically characterized by increased proliferation and impaired differentiation of keratinocytes. Systemic involvement is possible, the commonest being joint involvement.
In this chapter, we first discuss psoriasis in terms of general epidemiology, pathogenesis, genetics, and comorbidities associated with psoriasis and then we present in more detail the different subtypes of the condition.
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Ladoyanni, E., Arias, M.C., Fonseca Noriega, L., Verpetinske, I. (2022). Psoriasis. In: Smoller, B., Bagherani, N. (eds) Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53808-2_35
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