A common skin concern, pityriasis versicolor is occasionally referred to as tinea versicolor. Here’s what you need to know about identifying and treating it. I still remember first noticing the ...

Some genetic disorders are also believed to cause cutaneous hypopigmentation (loss of skin ... reviewing your child's ...

Hypopigmentation can also from when there's been an overproduction of a yeast on the skin called malassezia furfur (which causes the condition tinea versicolor) as well as "vitiligo, which is an ...

Pityriacitrin (PIT), produced by Malassezia yeasts, is an UV absorbing substance that might cause hypopigmentation in pityriasis versicolor alba. We aimed to investigate the UV protective effect ...