Wang HF, Wang CY, Zhou XF, Deng XF, Huang H, Wang J, Chen XQ, Zhai ZF. A New Assessment Method of Vitiligo by Combination of Dermoscopy and Reflectance Confocal Microscopy.
Clin Cosmet Investig Dermatol 2023;
16:3615-3623. [PMID:
38144155 PMCID:
PMC10740724 DOI:
10.2147/ccid.s432169]
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Abstract
Purpose
The aim is to investigate the application value of dermoscopy combined with reflectance confocal microscopy (RCM) in assessing vitiligo disease activity and treatment response.
Patients and Methods
We enrolled 279 patients with vitiligo and evaluated the disease activity by Vitiligo Disease Activity (VIDA) score, dermoscopy, RCM and dermoscopy combined with RCM respectively. The sensitivity and specificity of different assessment techniques were compared with VIDA score by the differences and consistency. The different characteristics of dermoscopy and RCM with different treatment responses were also analyzed.
Results
The results showed that the sensitivity and specificity of dermoscopy combined RCM were higher than RCM or dermoscopy alone (P values less than 0.05). In the repigmentation process, leukotrichia, pigment network absent and perilesional hyperpigmentation under dermoscopy at the baseline suggested a poor treatment response, while the incompletely disappearing pigment rings under RCM and perifollicular hyperpigmentation under dermoscopy indicated a good treatment response. We also found the proportion of patients with telangiectasia, increased pigment at the lesions and around the hair follicles was significantly higher in the good treatment response group than that in the poor one by dermoscopy (χ2 = 4.423, 32.471, 4.348, P = 0.035 0.000, 0.037) and by RCM the proportion of patients with both increased pigment granules and dendritic melanocytes in the good treatment response group was higher than that in the poor one (χ2 = 38.215, 5.283, P = 0.000, 0.022, respectively).
Conclusion
With the higher sensitivity and specificity than dermoscopy or RCM alone, a combination of dermoscopy and RCM may be a new more accurate measure to assess the vitiligo disease activity and the treatment response.
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