The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by vitiligo (white spot disease):
Skin and subcutaneous (L00-L99).
- Infestation of the entire skin
Neoplasms – tumor diseases (C00-D48)
- Malignant (malignant) skin tumors, unspecified.
Prognostic factors
- Large-area depigmentation (> 20%)
- Confetti-like depigmentation
- Mucosal involvement
- Leukotrichia (whitening of the hair)
- Positive Köbner phenomenon (appearance of disease-specific skin changes after nonspecific irritation (here: sunlight) at a previously unaffected area of the skin – in association with erythema solaris/sunburn).
