Vitiligo in childhood

Abstract

Core Messages: Childhood vitiligo differs from adult onset vitiligo in several features, including more segmental forms, higher prevalence of halo nevi, and more common family history for autoimmune diseases. The major differential diagnoses are the post-inflammatory hypomelanoses for non-segmental vitiligo (NSV) and nevus depigmentosus for segmental vitiligo (SV). Thyroid anomalies are detected in NSV only, and actually The course of childhood vitiligo is not well-known, since there is a lack of long-term follow-up studies. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.