Update on skin repigmentation therapies in vitiligo
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Update on skin repigmentation therapies in vitiligo.
Treatment for vitiligo is difficult and prolonged. Nevertheless, at present considerable knowledge accumulated during several decades on the pathogenic mechanisms, revealed important clues for designing new strategies to improve vitiligo depigmentation. With available medical therapies, high repigmentation percentages mostly on facial and neck lesions are achieved, although they are less effect...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pigment Cell & Melanoma Research
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1755-1471,1755-148X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-148x.2008.00528.x