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Treatment Options in Progressive Childhood Vitiligo
Progressive Childhood vitiligo is a common acquired de-pigmenting condition that can affect skin and hair with devastating psychological effects on patients as well as their parents. Children with vitiligo often suffer from anxiety and depression because of their unusual appearance. Management of progressive vitiligo in children is difficult as therapeutic options are restricted when compared t...
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Vitiligo is an autoimmune depigmentation disorder that is estimated to affect about .5% of the worldwide population. Half of all cases begin in childhood. A variety of advances occurred in the past two decades that have enhanced the management of childhood vitiligo. This contribution reviews recent advances in vitiligo, including a better understanding of the pathogenesis and autoimmune comorbi...
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Psoriasis and vitiligo are very common skin disorders that may have a profound impact upon the affected individuals; the etiology of both diseases includes genetic factors and triggers, which could be endogenous or exogenous. Two groups of children population consisting of 153 patients suffering from skin disorder (65 with vitiligo and 88 with psoriasis) have been examined at the Department of ...
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Vitiligo is an acquired, sometimes familial depigmentary disorder of the skin and hair which results from selective destruction of melanocytes. The prevalence of vitiligo ranges from 0.1% to 2% in various populations, The exact prevalence in the pediatric population is unknown, vitiligo begins before the age of ten years in about 25% of cases [1]. The average age in different studies ranges fro...
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Background: Surgical treatments of vitiligo are punch grafting, blister grafting, flip-top transplantation, split skin grafting, etc aiming at rebuilding of melanocytic population in those patients who do not respond to medical treatment . The objective of this study was determination of efficacy of blister grafting technique in the treatment of vitiligo. Methods: This study was done on 10 pati...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Indian Journal of Dermatology
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0019-5154
DOI: 10.4103/0019-5154.103067