How To Use pityriasis rosea In A Sentence
- Usually, guttate psoriasis must be differentiated from pityriasis rosea, another condition characterized by the sudden outbreak of red scaly lesions.
- The man with the new flaxen locks instead explained that he was struggling with pityriasis rosea, a chicken pox-like virus.
- Pityriasis rosea may lead to a truncal macular rash, sometimes with pruritus.
- Compared with pityriasis rosea, psoriatic lesions are thicker and scalier, and the lesions are not usually distributed along skin creases.
- The doctors told him to "pityriasis rosea" is a "very serious sexually transmitted diseases", the man has the misconception that "pityriasis rosea" is AIDS.
- Other papulosquamous disorders should be considered in the differential diagnosis, including guttate psoriasis, pityriasis rosea, and discoid lupus erythematosus.
- The differential diagnosis includes nummular eczema, pityriasis rosea, Lyme disease, tinea versicolor, contact dermatitis, granuloma annulare, and psoriasis.
- The rash of pityriasis rosea can look like eczema, ringworm, or psoriasis.
- There is no effective treatment for pityriasis rosea, except that patients who experience severe pruritus may benefit from topical corticosteroids and oral antihistamines.
- Some doctors believe that pityriasis rosea is caused by a viral or bacterial infection.
