Clofazimine-induced Hair Pigmentation

A 45-year-old man was treated with WHO multibacillary multidrug therapy for borderline leprosy and high dose daily Clofazimine for lepra reaction. Along with the expected side effect of skin pigmentation, the patient also noticed darkening of previously grey hair. This colour persisted eight months...

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Autores principales: Philip, Mariam, Samson, Joan Felicita, Simi, Puthenveedu Salahudeen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3500060/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23180930
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.100088
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description A 45-year-old man was treated with WHO multibacillary multidrug therapy for borderline leprosy and high dose daily Clofazimine for lepra reaction. Along with the expected side effect of skin pigmentation, the patient also noticed darkening of previously grey hair. This colour persisted eight months after completing multibacillary multidrug therapy.
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spelling pubmed-35000602012-11-23 Clofazimine-induced Hair Pigmentation Philip, Mariam Samson, Joan Felicita Simi, Puthenveedu Salahudeen Int J Trichology Case Report A 45-year-old man was treated with WHO multibacillary multidrug therapy for borderline leprosy and high dose daily Clofazimine for lepra reaction. Along with the expected side effect of skin pigmentation, the patient also noticed darkening of previously grey hair. This colour persisted eight months after completing multibacillary multidrug therapy. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3500060/ /pubmed/23180930 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.100088 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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