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Table of Content - Volume 5 Issue 2 - February 2017


 

A study of clinical severity and its correlation with physical and psychological disability and stress incurred in the psoriasis patients

 

Patil Reshma Tanaji1, Harnalikar Manoj2*

 

1Assistant Professor, 2Associate Professor, Department of Dermatology Dr. Shankar Rao Chavan Government Medical College Nanded, Maharashtra, INDIA.

Email: drmanojh@gmail.com

 

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