Vitiligo. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mauro Picardo and Alain Taïeb, editors.
• Editors: Picardo, Mauro; Taïeb, Alain
• Contents: Preface -- I Defining the Disease -- 1.1 historical aspects -- 1.2 definitions and classification -- 1.3 Epidemiology -- 1.4 Histopathology including electron microscopy -- 1.5 Clinical aspects Including natural history according to subsets -- Short introduction -- 1.5.1 vitiligo including acrofacial, universalis -- 1.5.2 segmental vitiligo Including clinical aspects -- 1.5.3 Mixed vitiligo -- 1.5.4 rare variants including inflammatory -- 1.5.5 subtypes of mucocutaneous pigment cell involvement: mucosal, hair follicle (leukotrichia), nevus cells (halo nevus) -- 1.5.6 extracutaneous melanocytes -- 1.5.7 Environmental triggers: Koebner phenomenon and occupational vitiligo -- 1.5.8 associated disorders and comorbidities includingautoimmune/inflammatory disorders, immunodeficiences, rare monogenic diseases -- 1.5.9 age and vitiligo: childhood, pregnancy, late-onset -- 1.5.10 vitiligo and skin of colour -- 1.6 assessment and scoring including QoL -- 1.7 Editors synthesis -- II Understanding the Disease -- 2.1 pathophysiology overview -- Unifying concepts V-SV -- 2.2 methods to study vitiligo -- 2.2.1 in vivo confocal microscopy and other noninvasive techniques -- 2.2.2 animal models -- 2.2.3 in vitro -- 2.3 critical assessment of published data on vitiligo Short introduction -- 2.3.1 Genetics -- 2.3.2 epigenetics -- 2.3.3 melanocyte stability -- 2.3.4 oxidative stress and intrinsic melanocyte defects -- 2.3.5 immunity (innate, adaptive). Innate and adaptive separated -- 2.3.6 peptides, growth factors including POMC and family -- 2.3.7 Stem cells -- 2.3.8 other defects and mechanisms -- 2.4 pathophysiology of segmental vitiligo -- 2.5 Editors synthesis -- III Treating the Disease -- 3.1 management overview -- What has changed in a therapeutic perspective -- 3.2 discussion of available and new therapies -- 3.2.1 medical therapies -- 3.2.2 phototherapies -- 3.2.3 surgical therapies -- 3.2.4 depigmenting therapies -- 3.3combined/sequential/integrated therapies includin g maintenance therapy -- 3.4 camouflage -- 3.5 photoprotection -- 3.6 age, gender, ethnic skin, specific locations -- 3.7 psychological intervention -- 3.8 patients perspectives -- 3.9 discussion of empirical, traditional, alternative approaches -- 3.10 evidence-based medicine perspective and guidelines -- 3.11 beyond guidelines -- 3.12 editors synthesis and perspectives -- Subject Index.
• Edition: Second edition
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (485 pages)
• Subjects: 616.5/5; Vitiligo; Vitiligo; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319629605; 3319629603
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 12, 2019).
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