Problems and Solutions
edited by
Torello Lotti
and Jana Hercogová
Especially attentive to emotional and psychological factors affecting optimal patient management, Vitiligo: Problems and Solutions:
- details historical, epidemiological, and hereditary data on the disorder
- weighs evidence supporting sundry hypotheses of vitiligo pathogenesis
- inspects histopathological and ultrastructural features of vitiligo
- explores endocrine, hematological, neurological, and additional clinical associations
- depicts clinical variants of vitiligo and relates strategies for differential diagnosis
- evaluates psoralen photochemotherapy (PUVA), UV, and photosensitizing substance treatments
- analyzes the therapeutic effectiveness of corticosteroids
- reports on surgical options and the use of tissue-engineered skin for lesion coverage
- discusses the role of vitamins and antioxidants in treating vitiligo
- assesses outcomes with UVB narrow-band microphototherapy and other UVB-based treatments
- relates therapeutic strategies geared specifically for children with vitiligo
Scaling new heights in the literature on vitiligo, Vitiligo: Problems and Solutions comprehensively informs medical practitioners, researchers, and students of all aspects and approaches to this common skin disorder-offering key updates on basic and clinical research as well as invaluable professional guidelines from authors affiliated with the most esteemed dermatological institutes worldwide.
Contents:
- Vitiligo : disease or symptom? From the confusion of the past to current doubts
- Historical and psycho-anthropological aspects of vitiligo
- Vitiligo : epidemiology
- Biology of hypopigmentation
- Disorders in healthy relatives of vitiligo patients
- Basic research : an update
- Vitiligo : the autoimmune hypothesis
- Vitiligo : a disorder of the microvessels?
- Pathogenesis of vitiligo : evidence for a possible ongoing disorder of the cutaneous microenvironment
- Free radical damage in the pathogenesis of vitiligo
- Possible role of nitric oxide in the pathogenesis of vitiligo
- Histopathological and ultrastructural features of vitiligo
- Clinical variants of vitiligo
- Vitiligo in children
- Vitiligo : focusing on clinical associations with endocrine : hematological, neurological, and infectious diseases
- Clinical associations : focusing on autoimmune and rare associations
- Ocular and audiological disordes in vitiligo
- Differential diagnosis for vitiligo
- Vitiligo : emotional aspects and personality
- Therapeutic guidelines for vitiligo
- Efficacy and adverse effects of psoralen photochemotherapy in vitiligo
- Treatment of vitiligo with UV and photosensitizing substances
- Corticosteroids in vitiligo
- Vitamins and vitiligo
- Alternative treatments for vitiligo
- Vitiligo : problems and surgical solutions
- Tissue-engineered skin in the treatment of vitiligo lesions
- UV-B narowband microphototherapy : a new treatment for vitiligo
- Vitiligo : problems and nonsurgical solutions
- Use of UVB in vitiligo
- Cover-ups : the view of the cosmetologist
- Cover-ups : the view of the dermatologist
- Depigmentation and vitiligo
- Vitiligo and the Internet
- Halo nevus
- Alezzandrini's syndrome
- Acquired hypomelanoses
- Idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis
- Leukonychia
- Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome
- Nevus depigmentosus
- Hypomelanosis and tuberous sclerosis complex
- Inherited hypomelanotic disorders
- Piebaldism
- Albinism
- Chediak-Higashi syndrome
- Melanoma and vitiligo
- Vaccines and vitiligo
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