Open AccessParthenium dermatitis severity score to assess clinical severity of disease
Author(s) -
Kaushal K. Verma,
Arika Bansal,
Neetu Bhari,
Gomathy Sethuraman
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/0019-5154.198037
Subject(s) - medicine , parthenium , dermatology , severity of illness , agronomy , weed , biology
Parthenium dermatitis is the most common type of airborne contact dermatitis in India. It is a chronic disease of a remitting and relapsing course with significant morbidity and distress, but there is no scoring system to assess its severity.