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Published in final edited form as: J Am Acad Dermatol. 2016 Aug 9;75(5):889–896. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2016.06.061

Table IV.

Use of psoriasis treatments before and after tonsillectomy of the 28 participating patients

	HLA-Cw*0602
Treatment	Homozygous (n=4)	Heterozygous (n=17)	Negative (n=7)
Before tonsillectomy
Topical therapy,^* n (%)	0	7 (41)	4 (57)
Phototherapy,^† n (%)	2 (50)	5 (29)	2 (29)
Systemic therapy, n (%)	1^‡ (25)	0	0
After Tonsillectomy
Topical therapy,^* n (%)	0	3 (18)	2 (29)
Phototherapy,^† n (%)	0	3 (18)	0
Systemic therapy, n (%)	1^‡ (25)	0	0

Corticosteroid creams, vitamin D analog creams or combination of both.

^†

With or without topical psoriasis treatment.

^‡

This patient was treated with methotrexate before tonsillectomy. His rheumatologist initiated methotrexate treatment again for reasons of psoriatic arthritis after 12 months of study follow-up.