Vitiligo

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Picardo, Mauro. (Editor), Tae̐b, Alain. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Dermatology.; Internal medicine.; Surgery.; Cytology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Plastic Surgery.; Human Genetics.; Cell Biology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69361-1

Vitiligo is one of the most common cutaneous disorders. Great numbers of affected patients suffer from the high stigmatizing impact of this disease. Up to now, clinical guidelines for the treatment of vitiligo were non-existent. In order to fill this void, this textbook defines and gives a complete...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Section I: Defining the Disease
• Section II: Understanding the Disease
• Pathophysiology Overview
• Generalized Vitiligo
• Genetic
• Environmental Factors
• In Vivo Data
• Animal Model
• In Vitro Approaches
• Oxidative Stress
• Immune/Inflammatory Aspects
• Cytokines and Growth Factors
• Proopiomelanochortin and Related Hormones in Vitiligo
• Segmental Vitiligo
• The Concept of Mosaicism Applied to SV
• Neural Hypothesis
• In Vivo Data
• In Vitro Data
• Editor<U+0019>s Synthesis
• Section III: Therapy
• How to Manage the Patients: Overview
• Evidence Based Medicine
• Phototherapies
• Local Treatments
• Systemic Treatments
• Non Defined Treatments
• Surgical Therapies and Combined Therapies
• Camouflage: Practical Aspects
• Patient<U+0019>s Perspective
• Editor<U+0019>s Syntesis
• Conclusions
• Appendix
• Treatment Regimen (Phototherapies): Pratical Aspects
• Techinques for Grafting
• Index.