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. 2020 Jul-Sep;13(3):197–203. doi: 10.4103/JCAS.JCAS_12_20

Table 4.

Comparison of results of this study with other studies

Study Author, year Excellent repigmentation at the end of study period
Needling with 5% 5-FU Current study 47% patches at the end of 6 months
Mina et al.,[8] 2018 48% patches at end of 6 months
Shashikiran et al.,[18] 2018 49% patches at the end of 6 months
Santosh et al.,[23] 2018 60% patients at the end of 3 months
Attwa et al.,[24] 2019 3.7% patients at the end of 3 months
Ghiya et al.,[25] 2016 60% patients at the end of 6 months
Dermabrasion with topical 5-FU Sethi et al.,[26] 2007 73.3% patches at the end of 6 months
Yones et al.,[22] 2013 45% patients at the end of 3 months
Garg et al.,[21] 2011 25% patches at the end of 2 months (4 sessions)
Laser dermabrasion followed by topical 5-FU George et al.,[13] 2017 40% patients at the end of 3 months
Mohamed et al.,[27] 2015 49.8% patches at the end of 5 months
Intradermal 5-FU with NB-UVB therapy Abd El-Samad and Shaaban,[28] 2012 48.3% patients at the end of 4 months

NB-UVB = narrow band-ultraviolet B