New and Experimental Treatments of Vitiligo and Other Hypomelanoses

Dermatologic Clinics

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 393-400

  Lotti, Torello ^a   Prignano, Francesca ^a   Buggiani, Gionata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; CUCUMIS MELO EXTRACT; PIMECROLIMUS; PLANT EXTRACT; PROSTAGLANDIN E; PSEUDOCATALASE; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VITAMIN D DERIVATIVE;

AUTOGRAFT; CANTALOUPE; DEPIGMENTATION; EXCIMER LASER; EXPERIMENTAL THERAPY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; HYPOMELANOSIS; PHOTOTHERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TISSUE ENGINEERING; TOPICAL TREATMENT; ULTRAVIOLET B RADIATION; VITILIGO;

DERMATOLOGIC AGENTS; HUMANS; HYDROQUINONES; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KERATINOCYTES; LASERS; MELANOCYTES; PHOTOTHERAPY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; ULTRAVIOLET THERAPY; VITILIGO;

EID: 34447630609     PISSN: 07338635     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.det.2007.04.009     Document Type: Review

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