A clinic specializing in dermatological care and cosmetic surgery; blepharoplasty, laser treatment options, peels, and dermabrasion, has been awarded JCI accreditation. The Clinic offers decent blends of dermatology, laser and surgery under one roof, and is staffed by highly qualified and experienced dermatologists, plastic surgeons, laser technologists and nurses. The Clinic claims to have performed [...]
Vitiligo is a serious pigmentation disorder and it goes beyond the obvious psychological distress due to its appearance. The disorder is not purely cosmetic, but puts the affected person at a serious risk of developing skin cancer and other disorders stemming from sun damage. This is because pigment producing cells in the skin are damaged [...]
Vitiligo is unresponsive normally to the therapies and it is believed that it is an autoimmune disorder. Although limited success has been attained by using the photochemotherapy (PUVA) for vitiligo treatment but it requires a frequent extended course. This demonstrative study has been conducted by U.S. authors who examined the usage of narrowband UVB for [...]
Some success has been achieved by using the epidermal grafting for the treatment of stable vitiligo and peibaldism but there is a variation in the result in case of progressive vitiligo. 26 patients having stable vitiligo and 14 patients of progressive vitiligo have been examined in this study held in South Korea after an observation [...]
Vitiligo gives extreme resistant to any kind of treatment. PUVA is considered as the main therapy but it is expensive, time consuming and only fairly effective. For the treatment of small isolated areas suction blister epidermal grafts, punch grafts, melanocyte grafts and autologous cultured keratinocyte have been experimented but effectiveness vary in all methods.
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