Hypopigmentation

Electra Nicolaidou, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, 1st Department of Dermatology and Venereology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, and "Andreas Sygros" Hospital for Skin and Venereal Disease, Athens, Greece Clio Dessinioti, MD, Msc, PhD Clinical Fellow, 1st Department of Dermatology and Venereology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, and "Andreas Sygros" Hospital for Skin and Venereal Disease, Athens, Greece Andreas D. Katsambas, MD, PhD Emeritus Professor of Dermatology and Venereology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, and Head, Dermatology Clinic, Hygeia Hospital, Athens, Greece

1. Basic concepts of melanocyte biology. 2. Approach to hypopigmentation. 3. Historical review of vitiligo. 4. Epidemiology and classification of vitiligo. 5. Pathophysiology of vitiligo. 6. Segmental vitiligo. 7. Childhood versus post-childhood vitiligo. 8. Pharmacological therapy of vitiligo. 9. Surgical treatment of vitiligo. 10. Phototherapy and lasers in the treatment of vitiligo. 11. Emerging treatments for vitiligo. 12. Tuberous sclerosis complex. 13. Oculocutaneous albinism. 14. Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome, Chediak-Chigasi syndrome, and Griscelli syndrome. 15. Piebaldism. 16. Waardenburg syndrome. 17. Alezzandrini syndrome, Margolis syndrome, Cross syndrome, and other rare genetic disorders. 18. Mosaic hypopigmentation. 19. Skin disorders causing post-inflammatory hypopigmentation. 20. Infectious and parasitic causes of hypopigmentation. 21. Melanoma leukoderma. 22. Halo nevi. 23. Drug-induced hypopigmentation. 24. Hypopigmentation from chemical and physical agents. 25. Guttate hypomelanosis and progressive hypomelanosis of the trunk (progressive macular hypomelanosis).