Abstract
We treated two refractory cases of psoriasis vulgaris with bath-PUVA therapy. Both patients had a large involved area showing scaly red plaques on trunks and limbs. The lesions almost completely disappeared after 21 exposures (27.4 J/cm2) in case 1 and after 7 exposures (4.1 J/cm2) in case 2. The total number of exposures was less than that for the topical PUVA therapy which they had been previously administered. These results suggest that bath-PUVA therapy thus appears to be another effective therapy for refractory psoriasis.
