CHEMICAL LEUCODERMA: INDIAN SCENARIO, PROGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT

Chemical leucoderma is an industrial disorder in developed countries and the common causative chemicals are phenols and catechols. Due to stringent controls and preventive measures the incidence has come down. In the recent past various chemicals in consumer products have also been documented to pro...

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Autores principales: Bajaj, A K, Saraswat, Abir, Srivastav, P K
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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IJD Symposium
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21063517
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.70674
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description Chemical leucoderma is an industrial disorder in developed countries and the common causative chemicals are phenols and catechols. Due to stringent controls and preventive measures the incidence has come down. In the recent past various chemicals in consumer products have also been documented to produce depigmentation. In India due to lax quality control measures chemical leucoderma due to consumer items is not uncommon.The various consumer items documented to cause contact depigmentation are sticker bindis, rain shoes, plastic chappals, hair dye/ black henna(kali mehndi), alta, wallets and even mobile plastic covers.
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spelling pubmed-29659112010-11-09 CHEMICAL LEUCODERMA: INDIAN SCENARIO, PROGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT Bajaj, A K Saraswat, Abir Srivastav, P K Indian J Dermatol IJD Symposium Chemical leucoderma is an industrial disorder in developed countries and the common causative chemicals are phenols and catechols. Due to stringent controls and preventive measures the incidence has come down. In the recent past various chemicals in consumer products have also been documented to produce depigmentation. In India due to lax quality control measures chemical leucoderma due to consumer items is not uncommon.The various consumer items documented to cause contact depigmentation are sticker bindis, rain shoes, plastic chappals, hair dye/ black henna(kali mehndi), alta, wallets and even mobile plastic covers. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2965911/ /pubmed/21063517 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.70674 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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CHEMICAL LEUCODERMA: INDIAN SCENARIO, PROGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
title CHEMICAL LEUCODERMA: INDIAN SCENARIO, PROGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
title_full CHEMICAL LEUCODERMA: INDIAN SCENARIO, PROGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
title_fullStr CHEMICAL LEUCODERMA: INDIAN SCENARIO, PROGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
title_full_unstemmed CHEMICAL LEUCODERMA: INDIAN SCENARIO, PROGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
title_short CHEMICAL LEUCODERMA: INDIAN SCENARIO, PROGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT
title_sort chemical leucoderma: indian scenario, prognosis, and treatment
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965911/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21063517
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.70674
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