Hyperpigmentation [hyperpigmentace]
- Terms
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hypermelanóza
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Hypermelanosis
Post-Inflammatory Hyperpigmentation
Excessive pigmentation of the skin, usually as a result of increased epidermal or dermal melanin pigmentation, hypermelanosis. Hyperpigmentation can be localized or generalized. The condition may arise from exposure to light, chemicals or other substances, or from a primary metabolic imbalance.
- Annotation
- do not confuse with HYPOPIGMENTATION
- DUI
- D017495 MeSH Browser
- CUI
- M0026546
- Previous indexing
- Pigmentation Disorders (1966-1992)
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- Public note
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- blood 1
- CF
- cerebrospinal fluid
- CI
- chemically induced 7
- CL
- classification 9
- CO
- complications 1
- CN
- congenital
- DI
- diagnosis 13
- DG
- diagnostic imaging
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- diet therapy
- DT
- drug therapy 5
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- economics
- EM
- embryology
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- enzymology
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- epidemiology
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- ethnology 1
- ET
- etiology 17
- GE
- genetics 2
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- history
- IM
- immunology
- ME
- metabolism 1
- MI
- microbiology
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- mortality
- NU
- nursing
- PS
- parasitology
- PA
- pathology 7
- PP
- physiopathology
- PC
- prevention & control 5
- PX
- psychology 1
- RT
- radiotherapy
- RH
- rehabilitation
- SU
- surgery 1
- TH
- therapy 25
- UR
- urine
- VE
- veterinary
- VI
- virology
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