vitiligo in English

noun
1
a condition in which the pigment is lost from areas of the skin, causing whitish patches, often with no clear cause.
For 15 years she has had symmetrical patches of vitiligo on her hands, elbows, hips, and neck.

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1. • autoimmune diseases-e.g., vitiligo, scleroderma, lupus, and alopecia areata;

2. Verbalizing in Vitiligo At Young Age Attentivenesses to alleviation and remedy vitiligo but instead charges it on genetic sciences as common

3. Interleukin-1β and interleukin-18 are expressed at high levels in patients with vitiligo.

4. These observations are contrary to those which have been found in other achromic lesions (vitiligo, albinism...).

5. Vitiliginous achromia with malignant melanoma shows some discrepancies with vitiligo. In both achromic and normal skin, four bands A, B, C, D of tyrosinase activity are observed; in vitiligo only bands A and B appear.

6. Has been used in the treatment of various kinds of diseases including enuresis, vitiligo, and Calvities

7. Rowe met Michael Jackson while working as a nurse in Dr. Arnold Klein's dermatology office, where Jackson was being treated for vitiligo.

8. In the same time several non endocrine autoimmune diseases became manifest: alopecia totalis, vitiligo, retrobulbar neuritis and keratoconjunctivitis.

9. Figure) extracted from the fruits of Ammeos visnagae fructus (Khella), is used medicinally mainly for the treatment of vitiligo

10. Vitiligo could be associated with the following diseases: Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism, Pernicious anemia, Diabetes mellitus, Alopecia areata and Addison's disease.

11. High melanin levels in healthy skin are associated with stored melanin in vitiligo patches in axillary areas, on the back, Brachiums, and femurs

12. Furocoumarins (psoralens and Angelicins) are often used for the photo-treatment of psoriasis, vitiligo, atopic dermatitis and other dermatological pathologies

13. To observe the influence of blood-nourishing and wind-expelling therapy on the therapeutic effect of epidermic grafting for vitiligo.

14. Despite relevant new research and progresses, why melanocytes disappear to induce the characteristic achromic lesions of vitiligo is not fully understood.

15. The authors report 2 cases of atypical vitiligo in which they observed 1) “cockade-like” lesions resembling those of “trichrome” vitiligo (from the centre to the periphery, achromic area, hypochromic ring, normal or hyperchromic border), 2) numerous linear achromic lesions corresponding to former excoriations (Koebner's phenomenon, isomorphic phenomenon).

16. (Merkel cell carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus) A drug used together with UV light to treat psoriasis, vitiligo, and skin nodules of Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma