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Associated with Vitiligo Involving Arms, Forearms, Neck, and Thigh

IRWIN I. LUBOWE, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1959;79(6):665-668.

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I have described previously in three articles^1,2,5 the treatment of alopecia areata, universalis, and totalis by the cautious use of cortisone, hydrocortisone, and their analogues, prednisone and prednisolone. In the later report,² I tabulated the result of treatment of 68 patients with alopecia areata, totalis, and universalis with methyl prednisolone (Medrol^*). In a recent communication⁴ in the ARCHIVES I have also suggested the possible pathogenetic relationship between hypopigmentation and melanocyte formation associated with alopecia areata and totalis. The duration of the alopecia ranged from 3 months to 25 years. I concluded that 62% of the male patients had complete regrowth and 38% had partial regrowth; also 58% of the female patients had complete regrowth, and 42% had partial regrowth.

In conjunction with the intake of methyl prednisolone orally, regular periodic intra-muscular injections of corticotropin (ACTH) are given weekly at . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
New York

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct. 17, 1958.

Clinical Assistant Professor of Dermatology, New York Medical College, and Associate Visiting Dermatologist, Metropolitan Medical Center.

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