New and emerging therapies for vitiligo.
Vitiligo is a common skin disease; however, it still remains a difficult disease to treat. Not all patients respond to current forms of treatment. There are several new treatments, surgical and nonsurgical, and immunologic, that appear to either have higher success rates than past therapies or have potential as future developments for therapy of vitiligo.
Halder
R M
RM
Department of Dermatology, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA.
Young
C M
CM
D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic / Q000627:therapeutic use; D016207:Cytokines / Q000627:therapeutic use; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015603:Keratinocytes / Q000637:transplantation; D008544:Melanocytes / Q000637:transplantation; D010778:Photochemotherapy; D010789:Phototherapy; D014820:Vitiligo / Q000628:therapy*
D000276:Adjuvants, Immunologic; D016207:Cytokines