Vitiligo: symptoms, pathogenesis and treatment

• Main Authors: Ghafourian, E., Ghafourian, Sobhan, Sadeghifard, Nourkhoda, Mohebi, Reza, Shokoohini, Y., Nezamoleslami, S., Hamat, Rukman Awang
• Format: Article
• Published: Sage Publications 2014
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/35993/; http://iji.sagepub.com/content/27/4/485.abstract

Vitiligo is an acquired cutaneous disorder of pigmentation, with an incidence of 0.5% to 2% worldwide. There are three major hypotheses for the pathogenesis of vitiligo that are not exclusive of each other: biochemical/cytotoxic, neural and autoimmune. Recent data provide stron...