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1Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
Introduction:
Vitiligo is an acquired skin disorder characterised by white (depigmented) patches in the skin, due to the loss of functioning melanocytes. The extent and distribution of vitiligo often changes during the course of a person's lifetime and its progression is unpredictable.
Methods And Outcomes:
We conducted a systematic review and aimed to answer the following clinical question: What are the effects of surgical interventions for vitiligo in adults and in children? We searched: Medline, Embase, The Cochrane Library, and other important databases up to April 2014 (Clinical Evidence reviews are updated periodically, please check our website for the most up-to-date version of this review). We included harms alerts from relevant organisations such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Results:
We found four studies that met our inclusion criteria. We performed a GRADE evaluation of the quality of evidence for interventions.
Conclusions:
In this systematic review we present information relating to the effectiveness and safety of the following interventions: blister grafts, cultured cellular transplantation, non-cultured cellular transplantation, punch/mini grafts, and split thickness skin grafts.
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