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Results 1 - 10 of 27 for vitiligo OR hyperpigmentation
  1. Vitiligo 
    Vitiligo is a skin condition in which there is a loss of color (pigment) from areas of ... Vitiligo occurs when immune cells destroy the cells that make brown pigment (melanocytes). This destruction is thought ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000831.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  2. Abnormally dark or light skin 
    Causes of hyperpigmentation include: Skin inflammation (post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation) Use of certain drugs (such as minocycline, certain cancer chemotherapies, and birth ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003242.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  3. Vitiligo (image) 
    Vitiligo is a condition which involves complete loss of melanin, the primary skin pigment. The cause of vitiligo is unknown but it appears to be an ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/10030.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  4. Vitiligo on the face (image) 
    This is a picture of vitiligo on the face. Complete loss of melanin, the primary skin pigment, occurs for unknown reasons. The resulting lesions are white in ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/2487.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  5. Vitiligo - drug induced (image) 
    ... this person's face have resulted from drug-induced vitiligo. Loss of melanin, the primary skin pigment, occasionally ... is the case with this individual. The typical vitiligo lesion is flat and depigmented, but maintains the ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/2486.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  6. Vitiligo on the back and arm (image) 
    Vitiligo is characterized by patches of depigmented skin. Here, the contrast is seen very clearly. People with ... light skin may not notice small areas of vitiligo. This person is receiving ultraviolet light treatment to ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/2673.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  7. Hyperpigmentation w/malignancy (image) 
    Generalized hyperpigmentation, in addition to localized areas of even deeper pigmentation is sometimes found in patients with malignancy. Etiology ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/2980.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  8. Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation 2 (image) 
    Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation is seen here in a mottled pattern, over the posterior shoulder. Hemosiderin, left behind by degraded RBC's, creates ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/2981.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  9. Hyperpigmentation 2 (image) 
    Hyperpigmentation refers to skin that has turned darker than normal where the change that has occurred is ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/2973.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
  10. Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation - calf (image) 
    Images ... Hyperpigmented concentric rings over the tibia are secondary to prior inflammation. Residual hemosiderin from broken down red ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/imagepages/2974.htm - Medical Encyclopedia
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