Open AccessChildhood vitiligo
Author(s) -
Sonja Prćić,
Duran Duran,
M Poljacki
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
medicinski pregled
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1820-7383
pISSN - 0025-8105
DOI - 10.2298/mpns0212475p
Subject(s) - vitiligo , medicine , depigmentation , family history , dermatology , age of onset , pigmentation disorder , disease , pediatrics , surgery
Vitiligo is an acquired, sometimes familial skin depigmentation disorder due to selective destruction of melanocytes. Vitiligo is primarily a disease of the young; in about half of patients it occurs before the age of twenty. The aim of this study was to investigate some epidemiological and clinical characteristics of vitiligo in children, in relation to adults with vitiligo and children without vitiligo.