Table of Contents:

Chapter 1.     Vitiligo:  Disease or Symptom?  From the Confusion of the Past to Current Doubts

Chapter 2.     Historical and Psycho-Anthropological Aspects of Vitiligo

Chapter 3.     Vitiligo:  Epidemiology

Chapter 4.     Biology of Hypopigmentation

Chapter 5.     Disorders in Healthy Relatives of Vitiligo Patients

Chapter 6.     Basic Research:  An Update

Chapter 7.     Vitiligo:  The Autoimmune Hypothesis

Chapter 8.     Vitiligo:  A Disorder of the Microvessels?

Chapter 9.     Pathogenesis of Vitiligo:  Evidence for a Possible Ongoing Disorder of the Cutaneous Microenvironment

Chapter 10.   Free Radical Damage in the Pathogenesis of Vitiligo

Chapter 11.   Possible Role of Nitric Oxide in the Pathogenesis of Vitiligo

Chapter 12.   Histopathological and Ultrastructural Features of Vitiligo

Chapter 13.   Clinical Variants of Vitiligo

Chapter 14.   Vitiligo in Children

Chapter 15.   Vitiligo:  Focusing on Clinical Associations with Endocrine, Hematological, Neurological, and Infectious Diseases

Chapter 16.   Clinical Associations:  Focusing on Autoimmune and Rare Associations

Chapter 17.   Ocular and Audiological Disorders in Vitiligo

Chapter 18.   Differential Diagnosis for Vitiligo

Chapter 19.   Vitiligo:  Emotional Aspects and Personality

Chapter 20.   Therapeutic Guidelines for Vitiligo

Chapter 21.   Efficacy and Adverse Effects of Psoralen Photochemotherapy in Vitiligo

Chapter 22.   Treatment of Vitiligo with UV and Photosensitizing Substances

Chapter 23.   Corticosteroids in Vitiligo

Chapter 24.   Vitamins and Vitiligo

Chapter 25.   Alternative Treatments for Vitiligo

Chapter 26.   Vitiligo:  Problems and Surgical Solutions

Chapter 27.   Tissue-Engineered Skin in the Treatment of Vitiligo Lesions

Chapter 28.   UV-B Narrowband Microphototherapy:  A New Treatment for Vitiligo

Chapter 29.   Vitiligo:  Problems and Nonsurgical Solutions

Chapter 30.   Use of UVB in Vitiligo

Chapter 31.   Cover-ups:  The View of the Cosmetologist

Chapter 32.   Cover-ups:  The View of the Dermatologist

Chapter 33.   Depigmentation and Vitiligo

Chapter 34.   Vitiligo and the Internet

Chapter 35.   Halo Nevus

Chapter 36.   Alezzandrini's Syndrome

Chapter 37.   Acquired Hypomelanosis

Chapter 38.   Idiopathic Guttate Hypomelanosis

Chapter 39.   Leukonychia

Chapter 40.   Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada Syndrome

Chapter 41.   Nevus Depigmentosus

Chapter 42.   Hypomelanosis and Tuberous Sclerosis Complex

Chapter 43.   Inherited Hypomelanotic Disorders

Chapter 44.   Piebaldism

Chapter 45.   Albinism

Chapter 46.   Chediak-Higashi Syndrome

Chapter 47.   Melanoma and Vitiligo

Chapter 48.   Vaccines and Vitiligo