Childhood Vitiligo

Köse, Osman; Özmen, İbrahim

doi:10.4274/turkderm.45.s20

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“…There are very few studies about the epidemiological properties of vitiligo in children in Turkey. Previous studies in our country have reported the prevalence to be between 1.4-8% [9,10,15,16,18]. The prevalence of vitiligo was found to be 0.4% In Egypt, 0.8% in Switzerland, 0.15% in Kuwait and 1.28% in India [1,2,13,19].…”

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Dermatologic Diseases Presenting with Pigmentation Disorders in Children: A Single Center Experience

Akbaş¹,

Kılınç²,

Yakut³

et al. 2014

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Background: To determine the incidence and demographic characteristics of skin diseases presenting with hyperpigmentation in children applying to the dermatology department. Methods: A total of 2815 children between the ages of 0 to 16 who applied to the dermatology clinic with the complaints of hyperpigmentation disorders were evaluated. The age, gender, socioeconomic status, place of residence and demographic characteristics of children with abnormal pigmentation skin lesions were investigated. Results: A total of 2815 children applied to the dermatology clinic during the study period. Of these patients 1491 were female (53%) and 1324 were male (47%). Of these 266 (9.4%) were diagnosed with skin disorders presenting with hyperpigmention. The causes of hyperpigmentation in these patients were was follows; pityriasis alba (2.6%), melanocytic nevus (2.1%), vitiligo (1.8%) postinflammatory hyperpigmentation (0.5%), and postinflammatory hypopigmentation (0.5%). According to the gender, p.alba, vitiligo, Becker nevus, acanthosis nigricans, tuberosclerosis and albinism were seen more in boys and nevus depigmentosus ephelis, postinflammatory hyperpigmentation/hypopigmentation and melanocytic nevus were seen more in the girls. Pitriyazis versicolor was seen equally in both genders. According to age groups, melanocytis nevus were found to be more frequent between the ages of 0-2 and 12-16, whereas pityrsasis versicolor was more frequent in ages [12][13][14][15][16] There are quite a substantial number of pigmentation diseases occurring in children. Early diagnosis and treatment are important because although these diseases mainly cause cosmetic problems, they can decrease the quality of life. Here, we attempted to define the demographic characteristics of diseases presenting with disorders in pigmentation in children.

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Dermatologic Diseases Presenting with Pigmentation Disorders in Children: A Single Center Experience

Akbaş¹,

Kılınç²,

Yakut³

et al. 2014

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Effects of age of onset on disease characteristics in non‐segmental vitiligo

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In patients with vitiligo, the clinical and laboratory features of the disease may vary according to time of onset. This is addressed in the literature by only a few studies with conflicting results. The aim of this study was to determine the demographic and clinical features of patients with non-segmental vitiligo and to establish the association between vitiligo and autoimmune diseases with a focus on time of disease onset. A total of 224 vitiligo patients for whom complete medical records were available were evaluated retrospectively. Demographic data, scores on the Vitiligo Area Score Index (VASI), clinical features, vitiligo disease activity, repigmentation status, presence of any accompanying autoimmune disease, antinuclear antibody (ANA) titers, serum levels of glucose, thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), thyroxine (T4) hormone, anti-thyroid peroxidase (anti-TPO), and anti-thyroglobulin (anti-TG) were recorded. The prevalence of halo nevi was significantly higher (P < 0.001) among children than in other patient groups. The prevalence of leukotrichia was higher in adults with adult-onset disease than in either pediatric patients or adults with childhood-onset disease (P = 0.002). Both anti-TG and anti-TPO levels were significantly higher in adults with adult-onset disease than in pediatric patients and adult patients with childhood-onset disease. The prevalence of autoimmune disease was 22.2%. Anti-TG levels were significantly higher in patients with treatment-related repigmentation than in those without repigmentation. This study shows that clinical features and associations with autoimmune disease may vary according to the age of onset of vitiligo.

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Childhood Vitiligo

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Dermatologic Diseases Presenting with Pigmentation Disorders in Children: A Single Center Experience

Dermatologic Diseases Presenting with Pigmentation Disorders in Children: A Single Center Experience

Effects of age of onset on disease characteristics in non‐segmental vitiligo

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