Poliosis

Classification according to ICD-10
L67.1	Changes in hair color - poliosis
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Poliosis describes the white discoloration of body hair such as eyelashes , brows, scalp or pubic hair. If only individual strands of hair are affected, it is called poliosis circumscripta . The pigment disorder alone has no disease value. However, it can appear as a symptom of Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome , Waardenburg syndrome, or albinism .

Individual evidence

1. ^ GK Krieglstein: Ophthalmology. Springer, 2007, ISBN 978-3-540-30454-8 , p. 518. (online)
2. ↑ FW Tischendorf: Blickdiagnostik: Compact Atlas of clinical inspection and differential diagnostics. Schattauer Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7945-2654-3 , p. 116, (online)

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