Cicatricial pemphigoid with severe laryngeal involvement necessitating tracheostomy (laryngeal cicatricial pemphigoid). by Gaspar, Z, Wojnarowska, F

“…We report the case of a 68-year-old woman with vitiligo, primary hypothyroidism and cicatricial pemphigoid with severe laryngeal involvement necessitating tracheostomy.…”

Clinical Efficacy of 5-Fluorouracil and Bleomycin in Dermatology by Suyeon Kim, Yu Ri Woo, Sang Hyun Cho, Jeong Deuk Lee, Hei Sung Kim

“…Both bleomycin and 5-FU have been applied as treatment adjuncts for vitiligo, with 5-FU showing a slightly better outcome. …”
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Mode of Presentation and Associated Autoimmune Diseases in Children with Autoimmune Hepatitis by Nelgin Gerenli, Coşkun Çeltik

“…Autoimmune diseases were observed in 24% of the parents (3 had HT, 2 had vitiligo). Conclusion: AIH is a rare but important cause of chronic liver disease in children. …”
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Prevalence of pigmentary disorders: A cross-sectional study in public hospitals in Durban, South Africa by Ncoza C. Dlova, MBChB, FCDerm, PhD, Lisa O. Akintilo, MD, MPH, Susan C. Taylor, MD

“…The three most common pigmentary diagnoses included vitiligo, postinflammatory hyperpigmentation, and melasma. …”
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Dietary protein deficit and deregulated autophagy: A new Clinico-diagnostic perspective in pathogenesis of early aging, skin, and hair disorders by Suruchi Garg, Ankita Sangwan

“…Results: A significant number of subjects (68.4%) were taking less than half of the recommended daily allowance of proteins and faced problems like hair fall, acne, pigmentation, vitiligo, hirsutism, melasma, and premature aging. …”
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Sex and age as biological determinants of autoimmune skin diseases by T. V. Nikolaeva, L. G. Voronina, N. P. Setko

“…Autoimmune skin diseases linked to sex and age of patients. Vitiligo is associated with male sex, localized scleroderma with women. …”
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Lenalidomide Augments Differentiation of Cultured Hair Follicle Derived Melanocyte Stem Cells Into Functional Melanocytes by Uma Kumari, Naveed Pervaiz, Harjot Kaur, Himani Sharma, Davinder Parsad, Ravinder Kumar

“…These progenitor cells in hair follicles repeatedly proliferate and differentiate to maintain pigmentation. Vitiligo, a pigmentary disorder, is associated with loss of melanocytes. …”
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Evaluation of Scalp Hair Density and Diameter in the Arab Population: Clinical Office-Based Phototrichogram Analysis by Alsharif SH, AlGhamdi KM

“…Sahar Hasan Alsharif,1 Khalid M AlGhamdi1,2 1Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 2Vitiligo Research Chair, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence: Khalid M AlGhamdi, Department of Dermatology, Vitiligo Research Chair, College of Medicine, King Saud University, P.O. …”
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Systemic Comorbidities in Korean Patients with Rosacea: Results from a Multi-Institutional Case-Control Study by Yu Ri Woo, Hei Sung Kim, Se Hoon Lee, Hyun Jeong Ju, Jung Min Bae, Sang Hyun Cho, Jeong Deuk Lee

“…Higher odds for Sjogren syndrome, systemic sclerosis, ankylosing spondylitis, thyroiditis, vitiligo, hepatobiliary cancer, and obesity was exclusive in female subjects with rosacea, whereas increased prevalence of alopecia areata and alcohol abuse was confined to men. …”
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Cognitive behavior therapy as dermatological treatment: a narrative review by Rishab R. Revankar, BS, Nikita R. Revankar, BS, Esther A. Balogh, MD, Heli A. Patel, BS, Sebastian G. Kaplan, PhD, Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD

“…A total of 30 included studies featured 10 on psoriasis, 11 on atopic dermatitis, 4 on vitiligo, 4 on acne, and 1 study on alopecia areata. …”
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6-Shogaol Protects Human Melanocytes against Oxidative Stress through Activation of the Nrf2-Antioxidant Response Element Signaling Pathway by Lingli Yang, Fei Yang, Lanting Teng, Ichiro Katayama

“…Increasing evidence suggests that oxidative stress is the cause of melanocyte disappearance in vitiligo, which is an acquired pigmentary skin disorder characterized by patches of skin that have lost pigmentation. …”
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Automatic evaluation of stratum basale and dermal papillae using ultrahigh resolution optical coherence tomography by Xie, Jun, Hao, Tian, Li, Chengxin, Wang, Xianghong, Yu, Xiaojun, Liu, Linbo

“…Diagnosis of many skin conditions requires evaluation of dermal papillae and stratum basale, such as vitiligo. In clinical practice, imaging dermal papillae structures relies on excisional biopsy followed by histological processing and analysis. …”
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Successful treatment of progressive macular hypomelanosis by Nicholas Leonard, Steven Krueger, Mehdi Rashighi

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Medical Texture Recognition Based on Intelligent Technique by Hasanen S. Abduallah, Hajer Mazin Salih

“…Second, the skin images are classified as Warts, Vitiligo, Hemangioma, and Normal depending on the decision rules generated by the decision tree using the ID3 learning algorithm.…”
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Eruptive syringomas in Down’s syndrome by Mrinal Gupta

“…It is associated with a large variety of dermatological disorders like anetoderma, cheilitis, cutis marmorata, elastosis perforans serpiginosa, fissured and geographic tongue, onychomycosis, palmoplantar hyperkeratosis, psoriasis, syringomas, alopecia areata and vitiligo. Syringomas are benign adnexal tumors which have been reported to occur with higher frequency among patients with Down’s syndrome. …”
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Chemical Profiling of Kaliziri Injection and Quantification of Six Caffeoyl Quinic Acids in Beagle Plasma by LC-MS/MS by Changhua Liu, Atikanmu Wahefu, Xueying Lu, Rahima Abdulla, Jun Dou, Haiqing Zhao, Haji Akber Aisa, Xuelei Xin, Yongqiang Liu

“…Vitiligo is a stubborn multifactorial skin disease with a prevalence of approximately 1% in the global population. …”
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Is it Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome? by Digambar Dashatwar, Neha Singh, Sumit Kar

“…We report a case presenting with vitiligo, auditory defect with additional dextrocardia.…”
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Necrobiosis lipoidica in diabetic patients: pathogenetic and clinical features by Daria Alexandrovna Semenova, Alla Yur'evna Tokmakova

“…Moreover, association of NL with autoimmune thyroid diseases, Crohns disease, ulcerative colitis, sarcoidosis, and vitiligo hasbeen documented. Such cases may be attributed to phenotypic and functional defects of cellular immunity.…”
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Escin Activates Canonical Wnt/β-Catenin Signaling Pathway by Facilitating the Proteasomal Degradation of Glycogen Synthase Kinase-3β in Cultured Human Dermal Papilla Cells by Jae Young Shin, Jaeyoon Kim, Yun-Ho Choi, Sanghwa Lee, Nae-Gyu Kang

“…Abnormal inactivation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway is involved in skin diseases like androgenetic alopecia, vitiligo and canities, but small-molecule activators are rarely described. …”
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Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada Syndrome (VKHS): First Two Cases Reported in Pediatric Age Group in Oman by Samiya Al Hashmi, Nasra Al Habsi, Safiya Al Abrawi

“…The main feature is bilateral granulomatous panuveitis, which is detected on ophthalmologic examination, along with additional systemic signs such as vitiligo, white hair, neurological involvement, or hearing loss. …”
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