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A Rare Condition: Blackening of the Hairs after Stem Cell Transplantation
Hacer Gozde Gul*, M.alı Erkurt, Irfan Kuku and Emın Kaya
Corresponding Author: Hacer Gozde Gul, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Unit, Turgut Ozal Medicine Center, Inonu University, Malatya, Turkey
Received: June 14, 2018; Revised: March 05, 2019; Accepted: June 23, 2018
Citation: Gul HG, Erkurt M, Kuku I & Kaya E. (2019) A Rare Condition: Blackening of the Hairs after Stem Cell Transplantation. J Carcinog Mutagen Res, 1(1): 1.
Copyrights: ©2019 Gul HG, Erkurt M, Kuku I & Kaya E. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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This image article is about a rare condition in a 61 year old patient, about blackening of hairs due to stem cell transplantation.

The patient was diagnosed with AML 4 and was treated by transplantation of stem cells. This led to the transformation of his white hairs into black.

61 years old male patient. He was diagnosed with AML 4 years before. He was given remission induction therapy and after that he got allogeneic stem cell transplantation. He acquired graft versus host disease after the HSCT. He was given cyclosporine for six months. And also imatinip and mycofenolate mophetil. Now, he has not used any drug for two years. The interesting point is his hairs were White before the HSCT and later his hairs became black even though he has not using any drug since 2 years.