(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.