Treatment of psoriasis with dichlorodiethyl sulfide
Janouchek, B.; Horakova, M.; Bartak, P.
Phlebologie 40(1): 171-175
1987
ISSN/ISBN: 0031-8280 PMID: 3575432 Document Number: 288448
A report is given of the use of dichlorodiethyl-sulfide (ypérite) in ointment form in a concentration of 1: 20,000 in the treatment of psoriasis. The effect of the treatment was followed in 59 patients. Healing or marked improvement occurred in 44. In in-patients the average duration of treatment was 16 days and in out-patients 48 days. When compared with other methods of treatment the method of application is very simple and its effect rapid. So that with a shorter average duration of treatment a higher percentage of patients is healed.