Long-term follow-up study of segmental and focal vitiligo treated by autologous, noncultured melanocyte-keratinocyte cell transplantation

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 140, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1211-1215

  Mulekar, Sanjeev V ^a,b  

^a Noble Clinic   (India)

^b National Center for Vitiligo and Psoriasis   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDETIC ACID; TRYPSIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPIGMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; KERATINOCYTE; MALE; MELANOCYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN ABRASION; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN PIGMENTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITILIGO;

ADULT; CELLS, CULTURED; FEMALE; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; LASER SURGERY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MELANOCYTES; SKIN PIGMENTATION; SUSPENSIONS; TRANSPLANTATION, AUTOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VITILIGO;

EID: 5444237455     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.140.10.1211     Document Type: Article

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