ONE YEAR HOSPITAL BASED CROSSSECTIONAL STUDY OF DERMOSCOPIC FINDINGS IN VITILIGO CORRELATING WITH LESIONAL ACTIVITY.”

Abstract

Background: With a prevalence of 0.5% to 2% and no preference for one race or gender over another, vitiligo is a frequent acquired depigmentary disorder. Clinically, it manifests as white depigmented macules to patches due to melanocyte loss, either from a failure to control cellular stress or through autoimmune destruction. Dermoscopy may help in noninvasive confirmation of the diagnosis by ruling out other clinically imitating hypopigmentary disorders since vitiligo is mostly a clinical

diagnosis. Furthermore, dermoscopy is quickly becoming recognized as a crucial auxiliary technique for assessing disease activity. Due to the relative dearth of literature on aspects of correlation between clinical and dermoscopic findings in vitiligo, we undertook this study to determine stability in vitiligo based on dermoscopic findings criteria and to correlate the dermoscopic features with clinical activity of the lesion and eliminate the need for biopsy. Aims & Objectives: • Primary Objective: To analyze dermoscopic patterns in diagnosed cases of vitiligo. • Secondary objective: To correlate vitiligo clinical activity of lesion with dermatoscopic findings.