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Vitiligo with raised inflammatory borders: involvement of T cell immunity and keratinocytes expressing MHC class II and ICAM-1 molecules Volume 7, numéro 1, January - February 1997

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Department of Dermatology, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 3600 Handa-cho, Hamamatsu 431-31, Japan
  • Page(s) : 19-22
  • Année de parution : 2000

Vitiligo is an acquired, idiopathic, melanin pigmentary disorder, which is characterized by the development of patchy, depigmented macules with a tendency to expand in a centrifugal fashion [1]. Melanocytes and melanin pigment are absent in vitiligo lesions [2]. It is speculated that this disease results from an autoimmune process, although it remains unelucidated whether the primary abnormality is in the melanocytes themselves or in [...]