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6869476

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-8-26
pubmed:abstractText
We examined 223 consecutive patients with vitiligo for ocular disease and 154 consecutive patients with uveitis for vitiligo to better determine the nature of the relationship between vitiligo and ocular disease. Of the 129 patients whose uveitis had an unknown cause, seven (5.4%) had cutaneous depigmentation, poliosis, or early graying of hair. The incidence is 0.5% in the general population (P less than .02). None of the 25 patients whose uveitis had a known cause had vitiligo. Eleven (4.8%) of 223 patients with vitiligo had uveitis at the time of the study or had had it within the previous two years. Of 27 patients in whom vitiligo was associated with cutaneous melanoma, five (18.5%) had had uveitis within the previous two years. In three of these five, the uveitis began within one month of the appearance of cutaneous changes. Evidence of old chorioretinal scars were present in 69 of 223 patients with vitiligo (30.9%) but in only two of 148 control patients (P less than .001). Sixty of 223 patients with vitiligo (26.9%) had evidence of hypopigmentation or atrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium, or both, not related to old chorioretinitis or macular degeneration but only six of 148 controls did (P less than .001).
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0002-9394
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
96
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
16-26
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
New observations on vitiligo and ocular disease.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.