Vitiligo in patients with metastatic melanoma: a good prognostic sign
JJ Nordlund, JM Kirkwood, BM Forget, G Milton… - Journal of the American …, 1983 - Elsevier
We have identified and studied twenty-seven patients with melanoma who also had vitiligo
Four patients had vitiligo before the diagnosis of melanoma, and twenty-three developed
depigmentation after the diagnosis of malignancy We also have reviewed published reports
about twenty-four other patients with melanoma who developed vitiligo The clinical course of
the melanoma in the fifty-one patients was remarkably similar Thirty-seven had a melanoma
arising at a site which tends to carry a poor prognosis, for example, on the trunk, under the …
Four patients had vitiligo before the diagnosis of melanoma, and twenty-three developed
depigmentation after the diagnosis of malignancy We also have reviewed published reports
about twenty-four other patients with melanoma who developed vitiligo The clinical course of
the melanoma in the fifty-one patients was remarkably similar Thirty-seven had a melanoma
arising at a site which tends to carry a poor prognosis, for example, on the trunk, under the …
