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He told the talk show host that he had vitiligo, a disorder that destroyed his skin pigmentation.
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Klein said he treated Jackson's vitiligo with a cream that eventually bleached Jackson's darker pigmentation to even out his skin color.
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Jackson had "vitiligo, a skin pigmentation disease, " Rogers said.
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The first source said Jackson's body was "lily white from head to toe, " perhaps the result of vitiligo -- a condition that causes the skin to lose melanin and produce slowly enlarging white patches.
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"I have to wear sleeves and carry an umbrella, " said Lee Thomas, who wrote a memoir called "Turning White, " which discusses his physical and mental struggles as an African-American man whose skin changes because of vitiligo.
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Dr. James Norlund, a dermatologist, never treated Jackson, but said the singer's use of the gloves and lipstick was consistent with the patterns of vitiligo, since the spots frequently first appear on the hands and face, including the lips.
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