title: Psoriatic arthritis: Mary Stults Sherman, a forgotten figure in its history.
abstract: Mary Sherman was an American orthopedic surgeon who in 1952 published one of the earliest descriptions of psoriatic arthritis in the English literature. In a time when the general consensus by American rheumatologists was that there was no sufficient evidence to consider psoriatic arthritis as a distinct entity, Mary Sherman argued otherwise. Her work provided clinical, pathological, and therapeutic evidence in support of its distinctiveness as a unique disorder separate from rheumatoid arthritis.
authors.affiliation: LSU Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, VA, USA, luisrolan@msn.com.
authors.forename: Luis R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Espinoza
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Helliwell
mesh_terms: D015535:Arthritis, Psoriatic / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D012219:Rheumatology / Q000266:history*