Smitha Prabhu

Chronic idiopathic urticaria: Comparison of clinical features with positive autologous serum skin test (2008)

George, Mamatha, Balachandran, C., Prabhu, Smitha

Background: Chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU), in its extremely severe form, can pose a therapeutic challenge to the treating physician. It has been noted that in one third of such patients,...

Clothes-on PUVA in psoriasis: Single blind randomized comparative trial on 21 patients (2004)

Varma, Sachin, Ballambat, Sathish Pai, Balachandran, Chandrashekaran, Shenoi, Shruthakirthi, Prabhu, Smitha

BACKGROUND: PUVASOL therapy has an inherent drawback of patient compliance in that Indian female patients with psoriasis lesions on covered parts of the body are reluctant to expose themselves. In...