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Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2021 Vitiligo is a chronic skin condition which affects 0,5-2% of the world’s population, without any sex or ethnical predilection. Clinically it is characterized by the development of well-defined depigmented macules. Although its etiopathogenesis is exquisitely compound and remains not fully anderstood, it is known that it results from the destruction of ...
Prylińska, Monika +2 more
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Determining the Characteristic Vocabulary for a Specialized Dictionary using Word2vec and a Directed Crawler [PDF]
, 2016 Specialized dictionaries are used to understand concepts in specific domains, especially where those concepts are not part of the general vocabulary, or having meanings that differ from ordinary languages.
Grefenstette, Gregory, Muchemi, Lawrence
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Survey and online discussion groups to develop a patient-rated outcome measure on acceptability of treatment response in vitiligo [PDF]
, 2014 BackgroundVitiligo is a chronic depigmenting skin disorder which affects around 0.5-1% of the world’s population. The outcome measures used most commonly in trials to judge treatment success focus on repigmentation.
Batchelor, Jonathan M. +5 more
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Asia-Pacific Journal of Clinical Oncology, EarlyView.Semi‐structured interviews with 17 rural head and neck cancer survivors revealed six main themes relating to their survivorship needs and experiences: 1) financial impacts, 2) physical effects, 3) psychosocial effects, 4) clinical management, 5) information and support needs, and 6) access.
Poorva Pradhan +14 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2016 Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease with a strong genetic component, characterized by areas of depigmented skin resulting from loss of epidermal melanocytes.
Chang eShen +12 more
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Management of childhood vitiligo − a brief review
Pigment International, 2022 Vitiligo comprises of one of the commonest reasons for a dermatology consultation in the pediatric age group, worldwide. The incidence of childhood vitiligo varies from 1% to 8%, making it a significant pediatric condition. Various theories have been put
Sahana P Raju +2 more
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The Genetics of Vitiligo [PDF]
Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2011 Vitiligo is one of the most striking of all human disease phenotypes, and it is perhaps the most common pigmentary disorder. The patchy loss of skin pigmentation and the marked contrast between involved and uninvolved skin particularly impacts persons of color, with consequent stigmatization that has long been recognized to result in significant social
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Validation of the Vitiligo Noticeability Scale: a patient-reported outcome measure of Vitiligo treatment success [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Patient-reported outcome measures are rarely used in vitiligo trials. The Vitiligo Noticeability Scale (VNS) is a new patient-reported outcome measure assessing how ‘noticeable’ the vitiligo patches are after treatment. The noticeability of
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Australasian Journal of Dermatology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is a form of cicatricial alopecia that is being increasingly diagnosed in recent years. It predominantly affects post‐menopausal women of various ethnic backgrounds, but cases have also been reported in pre‐menopausal women and rarely in men.
Adrienne Oxenham, Annabel Stevenson
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Aetiology and treatment of epidermal depigmentory disorder in humans [PDF]
, 2012 The epidermal depigmentary trigger in humans at post-natal level may occur with the toxification of skin organ with the endogenously produced melanocytotoxic hydrogen peroxide and subsequent formation of hydrogen peroxide- melanolipoprotein conjugate ...
S. S. Sawhney
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