WHAT IS IT ?
  • SURGICAL MODALITIES OF TREATMENT
  • Established surgical tecniques include
  • Mini puncture grafting
  • Blister roof grafting
  • Super grafting
  • Surgical Treatment

    Surgical treatment option of cultured or non cultured melanocyte keratinocyte transplantation is the best surgical option for stable vitiligo patches.

  • CULTURED MELANOTCYTE TRANSPLANTATION
  • Procedure requires highly sophisticated melanocyte culture laboratory and time gap between biopsy and transfer could range from 4 weeks to 8 weeks.
  • Most important advantage is large area can be covered in one go from small biopsy sample.
  • NON CULTURED MELANOTCYTE TRANSPLANTATION
  • Technologically simple to perform
  • Requires very less equipment
  • Basically it is a day care procedure
  • Biopsy and Transfer procedures done on same day with time delay of only 3 hours
  • Requires very less equipmentCan be used to treat small lesions upto 100-150 sq. cm at a time
  • INDICATIONS
  • Stable form of vitiligo.
  • No use of immunosuppressive &cytotoxic drugs at least for past 6 months.
  • COTRA INDICATIONS
  • Patients with active disease.
  • Pregnant patients
  • Keloidal tendencies
  • Infection at recipient site
  • Evidence of koebner in past.
  • SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS
  • Medias
  • Lamellar flow bench
  • Co2 incubator
  • Centrifuge
  • Petri dish,pippetes,Kollagen,Tegaderm.