Psoriasis | CDC

How is psoriasis diagnosed and treated? Psoriasis often has a typical appearance that a primary care doctor can recognize, but it can be confused with other skin diseases (like eczema), so a dermatologist (skin doctor) is often the best doctor to diagnose it. The treatment of psoriasis usually depends on how much skin is affected, how bad the disease is (e.g., having many or painful skin …

Link: https://www.cdc.gov/psoriasis/index.htm