Vitiligo

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Picardo, Mauro (Editor), Taïeb, Alain (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Dermatology.; Internal medicine.; Plastic surgery.; Cell biology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Plastic Surgery.; Human Genetics.; Cell Biology.

Vitiligo has been, until recently, a rather neglected area in dermatology and medicine. Patients complain about this situation, which has offered avenues to quacks, and has led to the near orphan status of the disease. The apparently, simple and poorly symptomatic presentation of the disease has bee...