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Clinically Inflammatory Vitiligo and Rare Variants

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A particular form of vitiligo of clinically inflammatory vitiligo has been reported as “inflammatory vitiligo with raised borders” or marginal vitiligo and is associated with lichenoid infiltrates in the margins of progressing lesions. In pigmented progressing borders of common vitiligo/NSV and SV, similar features of lesser intensity have been demonstrated suggesting that most subtypes of vitiligo belong to the spectrum of a clinically silent chronic inflammatory skin disorder responsible for melanocyte loss. Clinically inflammatory vitiligo (CIV) has been sometimes associated with infectious or inflammatory diseases. Other rare variants considered in this chapter include follicular vitiligo, vitiligo/leukoderma guttata, and hypopigmented vitiligo/vitiligo minor. For both CIV and hypopigmented vitiligo, biopsies (sometimes repeated) are needed to establish a firm diagnosis, in particular to exclude cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, a major differential diagnosis.

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    Alain Taïeb, Khaled Ezzedine & Julien Seneschal

  2. Visakha Institute of Skin and Allergy, Visakhapatnam, India

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Taïeb, A., Ezzedine, K., Seneschal, J., Attili, R. (2019). Clinically Inflammatory Vitiligo and Rare Variants. In: Picardo, M., Taïeb, A. (eds) Vitiligo. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62960-5_8

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