What's the difference between leucoderma and vitiligo?

Leucoderma


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The course is traced until the erythema fades and disseminated leucoderma appears.
  • (2) The therapeutic value of Semecarpus anacardium in arthropathies, atopic dermatitis, leucoderma, leprosy, hypothyroidism, oligospermia, and azoospermia and its value as an oral contraceptive have been studied.
  • (3) Leucoderma from cosmetics needs to be differentiated from vitiligo.

Vitiligo


Definition:

  • (n.) A rare skin disease consisting in the development of smooth, milk-white spots upon various parts of the body.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Six patients with spreading vitiligo treated with applications of monobenzone developed a vesicular dermatitis.
  • (2) Duplicate heparinized blood samples were drawn from 22 subjects; 2 healthy subjects, 1 vitiligo and 19 with thyroid or parathyroid diseases.
  • (3) Jackson said he suffered from vitiligo, a condition that causes the skin to lose its pigment.
  • (4) Three patients with malignant melanoma and coexisting vitiligo are described.
  • (5) Two vitiligo patients were hypergastrinaemic suggesting latent pernicious anaemia.
  • (6) The psoralen analogs 8-methoxypsoralen (8-MOP) and 4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (TMP), in combination with ultraviolet light (UVA, 320-400 nm), are potent modulators of epidermal cell growth and differentiation and are commonly used in photochemotherapy of psoriasis and vitiligo.
  • (7) Since persons with the Down syndrome are predisposed to immunological deficiency in thymus-dependent (T-cell) function, findings from the skin examinations suggest that immunologic factors might contribute to the increased incidence of vitiligo and alopecia areata seen in the Down syndrome.
  • (8) Association with diseases such as diabetes, vitiligo and hypothyroidism have strengthened the auto-immune nature of this syndrome.
  • (9) The results of the present study suggest that systemic factors may play a role in the pathogenesis of vitiligo and acquired hypomelanosis guttata.
  • (10) Psycho- and autonomotropic drugs, acupuncture, and psychotherapeutic conversations were used for the correction of psychologic abnormalities in 49 vitiligo patients, presenting with impaired sociopsychological adaptation and autonomic imbalance.
  • (11) The data obtained suggest that kynurenine and serotonin pathways of tryptophan metabolism were intensified in vitiligo.
  • (12) The lysis of human melanocytes by vitiligo patients' sera by two different effector mechanisms provides direct support for the autoimmune hypothesis of human vitiligo.
  • (13) No significant differences in the results of several immunological examinations (E-RFC, EAC-RFC, EA-RFC, IF, IF-elution) came to light results suggest that the lymphocytes are probably not implied in the pathogenesisof vitiligo.
  • (14) In three men vitiligo-like skin changes, enlargement of liver and spleen and diffuse goitre (grade II) with increased TSH secretion developed within one to two years of their having started work in a factory producing paratertiary butylphenol.
  • (15) Vitiligo lesions themselves gave rise to unidentified dendritic cells that survived for 10-15 days without manifesting any growth.
  • (16) C4 typing by Western blot analysis showed the frequency of the C4A*Q0 allele in the vitiligo patient group to be close to normal.
  • (17) This culture system will be applied to investigate the basic pathophysiology of vitiligo and other various pigmentary dermatoses.
  • (18) Vitiliginous achromia with malignant melanoma shows some discrepancies with vitiligo.
  • (19) A 45 year old Saudi male with poliosis, alopecia areata, vitiligo, anterior uveitis, inflammatory changes in the posterior pole of the retina and paraparesis presented with features of the Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome, uncontrolled diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism.
  • (20) A diabetic patient is described presenting psoriasis, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, granuloma annulare, and vitiligo and with a history of recurrent erysipelas and mycotic infections.

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