RT Book, Section
A1 Hong Liang, TEY
A1 Meiyin Lynette Charlene, LOW
A2 Sze Hon, CHUA
A2 Suat Hoon, TAN
A2 Chee Leok, GOH
A2 See Ket, NG
SR Print(0)
ID 1203993767
T1 Pruritic Skin Conditions
T2 Asian Skin: a Reference Color Atlas of Dermatology and Venereology, Revised 2nd Edition
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9789814821292
LK accessworldmed.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1203993767
RD 2024/10/09
AB Pruritus  (itch)  can  be  defined  as  an  unpleasant  sensory  and  emotional  experience  that  provokes  a  desire  to  scratch.  In  the  approach  to  the  management  of  a  pruritic  skin  condition,  identification  of  an  underlying  cause  is  important.  The  first  step  is  to  determine  the  presence  of  an  underlying  dermatological  disease.  If  no  primary  dermatosis  is  identified  and  only  secondary  excoriations  from  chronic  scratching  are  present,  the  patient  should  be  evaluated  for  an  underlying  systemic  and/or  neurological  cause  for  the  pruritis.  Psychogenic  causes  are  considered  only  after  the  exclusion  of  organic  causes.