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Vitiligo

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Vitiligo is a depigmenting skin disorder. Depend on location of lesions Vitiligo could cause severe psychological distress for patients.

Vitiligo is a multifactorial disease and has different clinical presentations. Autoimmunity plays an important role and it could be associated with other autoimmune problems. Stress has a role in triggering and aggravating the disease in some patients.

This chapter will review Vitiligo, its current treatments, as well as how to deal with psychological aspects of it.

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  1. University of Wisconsin, Department of Dermatology, Madison, USA

    Ladan Mostaghimi MD

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  1. Centro Studi per la Ricerca Multidisciplinare e Rigenerativa Department of Dermatology, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Rome, Italy

    Katlein França

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Saginaw, Michigan, USA

    Mohammad Jafferany

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Mostaghimi, L. (2017). Vitiligo. In: França, K., Jafferany, M. (eds) Stress and Skin Disorders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46352-0_13

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