Ramsay B, Lawrence CM, Bruce JM, Shuster S. The effect of triethanolamine application on anthralin-induced inflammation and therapeutic effect in psoriasis.
J Am Acad Dermatol 1990;
23:73-6. [PMID:
2142172 DOI:
10.1016/0190-9622(90)70189-o]
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Abstract
Twenty patients with chronic plaque psoriasis were treated with short-contact anthralin followed by 10% triethanolamine application to one side of the body and aqueous cream to the other. Anthralin-induced inflammation was inhibited on the triethanolamine-treated side whereas anthralin therapy had to be temporarily stopped in 18 patients on the aqueous cream side because of anthralin-induced inflammation. Therapeutic response was not different in the two sides. This study shows that anthralin-induced inflammation and its therapeutic effect can be dissociated.
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