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Psoriasis is a common, genetically determined chronic inflammatory disease of skin, with symmetrically arranged, red, scaly plaques. Psoriasis is now recognised as a multisystem inflammatory disease.
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Hall, A. (2019). Psoriasis. In: Atlas of Male Genital Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99750-6_13
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