Concomitant appearance of morphea and vitiligo in a patient with autoimmune thyroiditis

Morphea is a rare fibrosing disorder affecting the skin and underlying tissue. Also called localized scleroderma, morphea is characterized by lesions, which are initially erythematous or dusky violaceous patches eventually turning into hypopigmented sclerotic plaques with a typical lilac-coloured border. Generalized morphea is a rare subtype of morphea characterized by more than four lesions occurring in two or more body sites. Although it has not been fully elucidated yet, it is increasingly perceived that autoimmunity plays the central role in the pathogenesis of both morphea and vitiligo.

• Publication year

  2016

• Venue

  Advances in Dermatology and Allergology

• Publication date

  2016-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5114/ada.2016.61610PMID 27605907PMCID 5004223
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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