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Nail lesions in psoriatic arthritis: recovery with sulfasalazine treatment
  1. J C Gerster1,
  2. D Hohl2
  1. 1Service de Rhumatologie, Médecine Physique et Réhabilitation, Centre Hospitalier, Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; Jean-Charles.Gerster@chuv.hospvd.ch
  2. 2Service Universitaire de Dermatologie, CHUV, 1011 Lausanne, Switzerland

https://doi.org/10.1136/ard.61.3.277

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    Treatment with sulfasalazine has been reported to be effective in psoriatic arthritis (PsA).1–,3 However, the role of sulfasalazine in cutaneous lesions has been surrounded by controversies. As far as we know its possible beneficial effect on nail lesions has not been reported.

    CASE REPORT

    A 25 year old man had presented with nail lesions considered to be psoriatic since 1996. During the same period he started to have pain in both knee joints. Since 1998 he had also had pain in the distal interphalangeal (DIP) joints. At the end of the same year the patient consulted a rheumatologist. On clinical examination, both knee joints were swollen and a Baker's cyst was present at …

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