Treatment for Leucoderma

Spectacle frame induced chemical leucoderma: A case report

Chemical leucoderma is an acquired hypopigmented dermatosis caused by repeated exposure to specific chemical compounds, notably the aromatic or aliphatic derivatives of phenols andcatechols which are commonly present in the rubber and plastic materials. Herein, we report a case of chemical leucoderma in a 55-year-old male, appearing bilaterally over the retroauricular areas, which appeared afte...

Notes on a Case of Leucoderma

By Assistant Surgeon A. "Wood, M.D. Reading somewhere, a short time ago, an article on the diagnosis between white leprosy and leucoderma, which then greatly interested me, I was soon afterwards gratified by having to treat a case of the latter, so well marked, as perhaps to justify my offering a few remarks thereon, in the hope that they may prove as acceptable to others, as the actual observa...

Notes on Common Skin Diseases. IV. Leucoderma

Secondary syphilis presenting as leucoderma syphiliticum: case report and review

Leucoderma syphiliticum (LS), originally described as syphilide pigmentaire, encompasses a spectrum of dyschromic lesions that emerge during the course of secondary syphilis. Very few case reports are available in modern biomedical databases. We present the case of a 57-year-old HIV-infected male patient who presented with several round to oval, non-scaling, slightly raised and well-demarcated ...

Notes on the Ætiology of Some Skin Diseases Met with in the Tropics *Being a paper read at the Medical Research Section of the Indian Science Congress, 1924.

under our observation. Age.?The age incidence of leucoderma is from 1 to 2 years and upwards, and the commonest period of onset is in the second and third decades of life. Leprosy and filarial lymphangitis and elephantiasis are rare in children. As mentioned in books, we found impetigo contagiosa very common in children, tinea tonsurans under 10 or 12 years of age, acne vulgaris in adolescents ...