Hypopigmentation

Hypopigmentation
Hypopigmentation
Classification and external resources

Hypopigmentation in vitiligo.
ICD-10 L80, L81.5-L81.6
ICD-9 709.0
DiseasesDB 21207
MeSH D017496

Hypopigmentation is the loss of skin color. It is caused by melanocyte or melanin depletion, or a decrease in the amino acid tyrosine, which is used by melanocytes to make melanin.

Contents

Treatments

Oftentimes, hypopigmentation can be brought on by laser treatments; however, the hypopigmentation can be treated with other lasers or light sources.[1]

Associated conditions

It is seen in:

See also

References

  1. ^ Reszko A, Sukal S, Geronemus R. "Reversal of Laser-Induced Hypopigmentation with a Narrow Band UVB Light Source in a Patient with Skin Type VI". Dermatol Surg. 34:1-4. 2008
v · d · ePigmentation disorders/Dyschromia (L80–L81, 709.0)
Hypo-/
leucism
Loss of melanocytes

vitiligo: Quadrichrome vitiligo · Vitiligo ponctué · syndromic (Alezzandrini syndrome · Vogt–Koyanagi–Harada syndrome)

melanocyte development: Piebaldism · Waardenburg syndrome · Tietz syndrome
Loss of melanin/
amelanism

albinism: Oculocutaneous albinism · Ocular albinism

melanosome transfer: Hermansky–Pudlak syndrome · Chédiak–Higashi syndrome · Griscelli syndrome (Elejalde syndrome · Griscelli syndrome type 2 · Griscelli syndrome type 3)

other: Cross syndrome · ABCD syndrome · Albinism–deafness syndrome · Idiopathic guttate hypomelanosis · Phylloid hypomelanosis · Progressive macular hypomelanosis
Leukoderma w/o
hypomelanosis
Vasospastic macule · Woronoff's ring · Nevus anemicus
Ungrouped
ungrouped: Nevus depigmentosus · Postinflammatory hypopigmentation · Pityriasis alba · Vagabond's leukomelanoderma · Yemenite deaf-blind hypopigmentation syndrome · Wende–Bauckus syndrome
Hyper-
Reticulated
Dermatopathia pigmentosa reticularis · Pigmentatio reticularis faciei et colli · Reticulate acropigmentation of Kitamura · Reticular pigmented anomaly of the flexures · Naegeli–Franceschetti–Jadassohn syndrome · Dyskeratosis congenita · X-linked reticulate pigmentary disorder · Galli–Galli disease · Revesz syndrome
Diffuse/
circumscribed

Lentigo/Lentiginosis: Lentigo simplex · Liver spot · Centrofacial lentiginosis · Generalized lentiginosis · Inherited patterned lentiginosis in black persons · Ink spot lentigo · Lentigo maligna · Mucosal lentigines · Partial unilateral lentiginosis · PUVA lentigines

Melasma · Erythema dyschromicum perstans · Lichen planus pigmentosus · Café au lait spot · Poikiloderma (Poikiloderma of Civatte · Poikiloderma vasculare atrophicans) · Riehl melanosis
Linear
Other/ungrouped
Acanthosis nigricans (Acral acanthotic anomaly) · Freckle · Familial progressive hyperpigmentation · Pallister–Killian syndrome · Periorbital hyperpigmentation · Photoleukomelanodermatitis of Kobori · Postinflammatory hyperpigmentation · Transient neonatal pustular melanosis
Other
pigments
iron: Hemochromatosis · Iron metallic discoloration · Pigmented purpuric dermatosis (Schamberg disease, Majocchi's disease, Gougerot–Blum syndrome, Doucas and Kapetanakis pigmented purpura/Eczematid-like purpura of Doucas and Kapetanakis, Lichen aureus, Angioma serpiginosum) · Hemosiderin hyperpigmentation
other metals: Argyria · Chrysiasis · Arsenic poisoning · Lead poisoning · Titanium metallic discoloration
Dyschromatoses
Dyschromatosis symmetrica hereditaria · Dyschromatosis universalis hereditaria

M: INT, SF, LCT

anat/phys/devp

noco(i/b/d/q/u/r/p/m/k/v/f)/cong/tumr(n/e/d), sysi/epon

proc, drug (D2/3/4/5/8/11)



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