Early symptoms of leukoplakia?

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Leukoplakia is a kind of refractory skin depigmentation. The main symptom of this disease is that leukoplakia appears on the body surface. In life, many diseases and vitiligo look very similar, such as tinea versicolor, pityriasis alba and so on. Each disease will appear corresponding symptoms, vitiligo is no exception. So, early symptoms of leukoplakia? Let's talk about it.

Early symptoms of leukoplakia?

1. White spot shape: the number of early vitiligo is generally not too much, mostly 1-2 pieces. At the beginning of the disease, white spots are mostly the size of mung beans, nails and coins. White spots can be round, oval or irregular in any shape, or they can be fused into irregular large pieces. There is also a kind of white spot is along the nerve distribution of ribbon or cord like discoloration spot.

2. White spot color: in the early stage of vitiligo, white spots (also known as skin lesions) are light in color, light in color and light in decolorization. The boundary between white spots and normal skin is not obvious, which is easy to be ignored. With the progress of the disease, white gradually deepened, showing pure white. But with the aggravation of the disease, the color of leukoplakia will gradually deepen, showing milky white, cloud white, porcelain white in turn.

3. Leukoplakia: vitiligo can occur in any part, the initial skin lesions are mostly in the head, face, neck and other skin exposed parts, knee, elbow, forearm, hand, heel and other vulnerable parts, as well as external genitalia, perianal and other places. The incidence rate of leukoplakia in various parts of the body was about 18% and 6% respectively.

matters needing attention

Leukoplakia is a symptom of many skin diseases, not a unique symptom of vitiligo. Vitiligo must have white spots, but there are white spots are not necessarily vitiligo, may also be white pityriasis, nevus, tinea versicolor, so it is easy to confuse, resulting in misdiagnosis and mistreatment. So long white spots found on the body, should be a time to the regular vitiligo hospital examination and treatment.