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Trastornos de pigmentación de la piel

Pigmentation means coloring. Skin pigmentation disorders affect the color of your skin. Your skin gets its color from a pigment called melanin. Special cells in the skin make melanin. When these cells become damaged or unhealthy, it affects melanin production. Some pigmentation disorders affect just patches of skin. Others affect your entire body.

If your body makes too much melanin, your skin gets darker. Pregnancy, Addison's disease, and sun exposure all can make your skin darker. If your body makes too little melanin, your skin gets lighter. Vitiligo is a condition that causes patches of light skin. Albinism is a genetic condition affecting a person's skin. A person with albinism may have no color, lighter than normal skin color, or patchy missing skin color. Infections, blisters and burns can also cause lighter skin.

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Results 1 - 10 of 94 for Hyperpigmentation
  1. Skin Pigmentation Disorders (National Library of Medicine)  
    Pigmentation means coloring. Skin pigmentation disorders affect the color of your skin. Your skin gets its color from a pigment called melanin. Special cells in ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/skinpigmentationdisorders.html - Health Topics
  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. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Dowling-Degos disease 
    ... like (reticulate) pattern of abnormally dark skin coloring (hyperpigmentation), particularly in the body's folds and creases. ... face, scalp, scrotum, and vulva. These areas of hyperpigmentation typically cause no health problems.Individuals with Dowling- ...
    https://medlineplus.gov/genetics/condition/dowling-degos-disease - Genetics
  7. ClinicalTrials.gov: Hyperpigmentation From the National Institutes of Health (National Institutes of Health)  
    Skin Pigmentation Disorders/Clinical Trials ... Skin Pigmentation Disorders
    https://clinicaltrials.gov/...igmentation"&aggFilters=status:not rec - External Health Links
  8. Post-Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation (VisualDX)  
    Skin Pigmentation Disorders/Images ... Skin Pigmentation Disorders
    https://www.skinsight.com/...nflammatory-hyperpigmentation?Imiw9cApl - External Health Links
  9. Hyperpigmentation (American Osteopathic College of Dermatology)  
    Skin Pigmentation Disorders/Specifics ... Skin Pigmentation Disorders
    https://www.aocd.org/page/Hyperpigmentation? - External Health Links
  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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