The treatment of psoriasis with etretinate and acitretin: a follow up of actual use

The actual usage of a treatment may differ from the established guidelines. For published guidelines on the use of systemic retinoids the reader is referred to some recently published reviews [1-3]. In order to investigate the actual use of systemic retinoids in psoriasis, the case record forms of patients, included for the first time with etretinate or acitretin between 1981 and 1989, were analysed. This time interval was selected in order [...]