Posts Tagged ‘Treatment of post-inflammatory Hyperpigmentation (PIH) in Caucasians’
Treatment of post-inflammatory Hyperpigmentation (PIH) in Caucasians (For Professionals)
Friday, September 28th, 2012Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation is located in the dermis. Wood’s lamp is useful to diffrentiate with other pigmentary disorders such as melasma (chloasma, pregnancy mask) Causes include: infections allergies mechanical factors or trauma phototoxic and photoallergic (cosmetics) reactions inflammatory skin conditions (lichen planus, Systemic Lupus Eythematosus (SLE)) Treatment: the condition is spontaneously resolutive over a few months […]
