An Epidemiological Study of Vitiligoin an Urban City Hospital
K. P. R. Chinthaamani
Department of Dermatology Venereology and Leprosy, Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital Affiliated to Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
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Abstract
Vitiligo commonly begins in childhood or young adulthood with peak onset between 10 to 30 years. From this study results it was found that females 83(55.3%)were more commonly affected with vitiligo than males 67(44.7%) and the most common affected age group is 31-50 (35.33%) and the most common site of onset of vitiligo was equal in upper limb and face seen in 71(47.33%) patients each, followed by lower limb sseenin50(33.33%) patients. The most common site involved in males was upper limb 32(47. 76%)and females was face 42(50.6%)were observed. The common type was common clinical type of vitiligo documented was vitiligo vulgaris, seen in 69(46%) patients. This was followed by mucosal vitiligo 36(24%), acrofacial22 (14.67%), segmental17 (11.33%) and vitiligo are ata6 (4%) and reported to be more common in B positive patients.
Keywords: Mucosal, vitiligo, melanocytopenia