Abstract:Vitiligo is an autoimmune disease resulting in destruction of melanocytes which leads to depigmented patches on the skin. An assessment of disease activity and/or stability is important for many reasons, one of them being planning surgical intervention. Though there are sufficient studies in the literature exploring the clinical, biochemical, and molecular predictors of disease stability, there still exists ambiguity in many of these aspects. There are no longitudinal prospective cohort studies to assess the c… Show more
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