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Asian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2022 Background: Vitiligo is a common acquired skin disease characterized by depigmented macules and patches due to loss of functional melanocytes. Childhood-onset vitiligo has distinct epidemiological and clinical characteristics as compared to that of late ...
Swapan Majumder +3 more
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Berkala Ilmu Kesehatan Kulit dan Kelamin (Periodical of Dermatology and Venerology), 2019 Latar Belakang: Vitiligo adalah penyakit depigmentasi yang paling sering dijumpai dengan manifestasi klinis berupa makula berwarna putih susu berbatas tegas, patogenesis kompleks yang belum dipahami dengan baik sehingga evolusi penyakit tidak dapat ...
Ardhiah Iswanda Putri +2 more
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Lip vitiligo: a clinico-epidemiological study in a tertiary hospital of South India
Pigment International, 2023 Vitiligo is a common autoimmune pigmentary disorder characterized by destruction of functional melanocytes resulting in the appearance of depigmented patches on the skin and mucosa. These lesions pose a cosmetic challenge.
A. S Savitha +3 more
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Indian Journal of Dermatology, 2023 Introduction: Vitiligo is a multifactorial disorder, most often explained by the autoimmune hypothesis. The objective of this study is to measure the levels of cytokines IL-6, TNF-α, and IFN-γ in the blood and skin (lesional and uninvolved) of vitiligo ...
Abhishek De +4 more
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International Journal of Women's Dermatology, 2020 Hydroxychloroquine (HQ) and quinacrine are widely used antimalarials for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and other autoimmune diseases. We report a case of antimalarial-induced hyperpigmentation in a 57-year old African-American woman. The patient had
Daniel Kwak, Pearl E. Grimes, MD
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Clinical characteristics of late-onset vitiligo in an Iranian population
Dermatologica Sinica, 2012 Background: The age of onset of vitiligo is before 20 years in approximately in 50% of patients, and its incidence decreases with increasing age. In this study, our aim was to analyze the epidemiological and clinical factors of patients with late-onset ...
Iraj Esfandiarpour, Saeedeh Farajzadeh
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Transcriptome analysis reveals markers of aberrantly activated innate immunity in vitiligo lesional and non-lesional skin. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BACKGROUND: Vitiligo is characterized by the death of melanocytes in the skin. This is associated with the presence of T cell infiltrates in the lesional borders.
Richard Yu +13 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 Vitiligo is a depigmented skin disorder caused by a variety of factors, including autoimmune, metabolic disturbance or their combined effect, etc.
Zhubiao Ye +10 more
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Case Reports in Dermatological Medicine, 2017 Vitiligo is a disorder of skin pigmentation. It affects approximately 1% of the world’s population. Vitiligo occurs equally between the sexes with no racial predilections.
Chelsea Casey, Stephen E. Weis
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Evaluation of S100B serum level as a biomarker of disease activity in vitiligo patients [PDF]
International Journal of Medical Arts, 2019 Background: Vitiligo is a depigmenting disorder characterized by the appearance of circumscribed white macules in the skin. The aetiology of vitiligo is not clear, and although various hypotheses have been proposed.
radwa abd El-Halim +3 more
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