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I am grateful to Prof Roy Chan, Medical Director and Dr. Goh Boon Kee, Consultant Dermatologist, of the National Skin Centre Singapore (where I worked earlier) for providing some of the photographs.
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Kumarasinghe, P. (2010). Vitiligo Universalis. In: Picardo, M., Taïeb, A. (eds) Vitiligo. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69361-1_6
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