Vitiligo is an acquired skin disease that significantly impacts the quality of life of patients. Medical treatment of vitiligo includes the use of melanocyte transplant, but the results are variable. We have treated 4 patients with either focal or generalized stable vitiligo using a graft of autologous melanocytes' culture on a denuded amniotic membrane (AM). A culture biopsy was obtained in ev...

Background: Treatment of vitiligo remains an attractive topic and several therapies with varying degrees of success have been used. The aim of this study was to find out whether the combination of topical calcipotriol and excimer laser increases the efficacy of therapy compared to excimer laser alone. Methods: Twenty eight patients in two groups were treated with 308nm excimer laser alone (14 p...

BACKGROUND Hypopigmentation is a relatively common side effect of CO2 laser resurfacing. Little is known regarding the histologic features of the areas of pigmentation loss. To date, hypopigmentation is considered a permanent complication of this procedure. OBJECTIVE To assess the histologic features of hypopigmentation caused by laser resurfacing and to evaluate the efficacy and safety of to...

256 Ann Dermatol Received January 27, 2016, Accepted for publication May 9, 2016 Corresponding author: Il-Hwan Kim, Department of Dermatology, Korea University Ansan Hospital, 123 Jeokgeum-ro, Danwon-gu, Ansan 15355, Korea. Tel: 82-31-412-5186, Fax: 82-31-412-4208, E-mail: kumcihk@korea. ac.kr This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Com...

Vitiligo is an acquired chronic inflammatory skin disease culminating in depigmentation due to loss of epidermal melanocytes. Melanocyte homeostasis involves melanocyte stem cells, melanoblasts and differentiated interfollicular hair follicle melanocytes, which play important role repigmentation vitiligo. Our laboratory performed scRNAseq on cKit +ve human melanocytes purified by flow cytometry...