Psoriasis Modes Of Presentations Among Iraqi Children

I AI- Hamdi MD Ph D, Khalil

	Psoriasis Modes Of Presentations Among Iraqi Children
KUFA MEDICAL JOURNAL
Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 405-410
Author
Khalil I AI- Hamdi MD ph D
Abstract
Back ground: Psoriasis is quite common in children. Many clinical variants are reported, some of them are a typical. Objective: To shed light on presentation of psoriasis among Iraqi children. Patients and Methods: Out patient based clinical epidemiological study that was carried out in dermatology department of Basrah teaching hospital during a period of 2 yrs., where a total of 104 psoriatic children were enrolled in the study. They were 55 females and 41 males. Their age ranged between 4 months and 11 yrs. with a mean age of 6.8 yrs. Results: The study showed that scalp, guttate and flexural psoriasis involving the napkin area or one or more of the body flexures were the commonest modes of presentation reported in 20.2%, 17.3%, 14.4% of the cases respectively. Many other atypical forms like chronic blepharitis, perliche were also observed. Majority of patients were either infants or younger than 5 yrs. while majority of those with scalp and guttate types were older than 5 yrs. Infection, fever and emotional upset are blamed as aggravating factors of the disease among our patients. Conclusion: Psoriasis should be considered in any child with chronic recurrent skin lesion with poor response to treatment particularly if it is atypical.

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