Where
Plot No 13D/B, Wellington Rd, Vikrampuri Colony, Karkhana, Secunderabad, Telangana 500009.
- Serves Trimulgherry, West Marredpally, Bowenpally, Alwal
- Formerly BNR Skin & Vitiligo Hospital
Hyderabad
Vitiligo treatment in Hyderabad
A practice that began as a vitiligo hospital, still run by the same dermatosurgeon, with the full range under one roof: topical therapy, narrowband UVB, excimer laser and surgical repigmentation for stable disease.
45 years in dermatologyDermatologist & dermatosurgeonKarkhana, SecunderabadBooking on WhatsApp
At a glance
- Also called
- Leucoderma, white patches, safed daag
- Available here
- Topicals, NB-UVB, excimer, graft surgery
- Surgery
- Melanocyte transplant, punch, blister grafting
- Where
- At the Secunderabad clinic
- First visit
- Diagnosis, activity assessment, plan
- Review
- Every 6–8 weeks
Why here
The clinic that still does the surgery.
Most vitiligo in Hyderabad is treated medically, which is correct for most patients. But medical treatment reaches a limit: patches on the lips, the fingertips, and any patch whose hairs have turned white have lost the pigment reservoir that creams and light work by recruiting.
For those patches the option is surgical: melanocyte transplant or punch grafting, moving your own pigment cells into skin that has none. Comparatively few centres in the city offer it, and it is the reason patients travel here from outside Telangana.
It is also the reason a first appointment here is an assessment rather than a sale. Surgery only works on disease that has been stable for about twelve months, and a significant proportion of people who ask about it are told to wait, which is a clinical answer, not a scheduling one.
Before you decide
Who is treating you, and what his patients said.
Dr. (Lt Col) Khagendra Varada
- 45 years in dermatology and dermatosurgery
- 25 of them in the Indian Army Medical Corps
- MBBS, Osmania Medical College
- Dip. Practical Dermatology, Cardiff · Dip. Dermatology, AAAM
Reg. No. 10461, Hyderabad State Medical Council
Full background →“I have been going pillar to post to get my son cured of his white spot on his left side of lip and chin. It appeared 8 years back. I was told it’s special type of nerve vitiligo which has no cure. After reporting to him he told us that it is SEGMENTAL VITILIGO and unlikely and difficult to be cleared by medications alone. He suggested for surgical melanocyte transplant… I was amazed after around one month that he started rapidly getting pigmentation. I wholeheartedly suggest please do not waste time like I did.”
“Dark spots are seen in one month… Even before perticular treatment for vitiligo, great”
The mechanism
An immune attack on one cell type.
Vitiligo is not skin that has faded. It is the loss of the cells that make pigment, destroyed by the immune system. Where they have gone, the skin above them has no supply and turns white.
- 1Pigment cells at work
- 2Colour lost above
- 3Immune cells closing in
That is why treatment is about stopping the attack and then bringing cells back — and why nothing works while the disease is still active.
- Pigment cells at work
- Colour lost above
- Immune cells closing in
Illustration, not a photograph.
The protocol
What treatment looks like here
Assess activity
Wood’s lamp examination, patch margins, history of new patches, and baseline photographs. Active or stable decides everything after.
Stop the spread
Active disease is quietened first: topicals, occasionally a short oral course. Repigmenting while new patches appear is wasted effort.
Repigment medically
Narrowband UVB for widespread disease, excimer for a few patches, usually combined with a topical. Reviewed at six to eight weeks.
Operate if stable
Patches that will not respond to light, on disease quiet for twelve months, are assessed for grafting on the surgical list.
Realistic expectations
What can be promised, and what cannot.
Vitiligo cannot be cured, here or anywhere. What treatment does reliably do is stop the spread in active disease, and repigment a meaningful proportion of affected skin in many patients: best on the face and trunk, least on hands, feet and lips.
You will be told at the first visit which category your patches fall into, and roughly how long a fair trial takes. Being told that a patch is unlikely to respond to light is more useful than six months of finding out.
Read the full vitiligo sectionFace and trunk respond best
Dense follicles, good reservoir. This is where phototherapy earns its reputation.
Hands, feet and lips need surgery
Not as a fallback, as the appropriate first choice for those sites.
Documented in clinic
Two vitiligo cases, photographed at this clinic.
Real patients, photographed here at fixed intervals and published with written consent. One repigmented with immunotherapy; one was grafted. Results differ from person to person: these are what happened to these patients, not a promise about you.
Before
After
Colour returned across both forearms. Vitiligo this widespread is judged over months rather than weeks, and the same arm can respond well in one place and slowly in another.
During surgery
After
Small grafts are placed into the pale patch, and colour then spreads outwards from each one — which is why the later photograph looks speckled before it evens out. There is no before photograph for this case; the first frame is the procedure.
Where to book
One clinic, in Secunderabad
Consulting rooms, phototherapy and the surgical list at one address in Secunderabad. The practice was formerly known as BNR Skin & Vitiligo Hospital.
How to book
On WhatsApp: one number, answered by the clinic team, who confirm a time and say what to bring.
- Photographs welcome before you travel
- Video consultation arranged the same way
Coming from outside Hyderabad?
Send photographs by WhatsApp before booking travel, or take a video consultation first. The point is to know whether the trip is warranted, and if surgery is the reason for it, whether your disease is stable enough.
Questions patients actually ask
Vitiligo treatment in Hyderabad
Which vitiligo treatments are available at this clinic?
Topical therapy including calcineurin and JAK inhibitors, narrowband UVB phototherapy, excimer laser, and surgical repigmentation: melanocyte transplant, punch grafting and blister grafting. Every one of them is done at the clinic in Secunderabad, so nothing is referred out mid-treatment.
Can vitiligo be cured in Hyderabad or anywhere else?
No. Vitiligo is not curable. Treatment stops the spread and repigments affected skin, often substantially. Any clinic in any city promising a cure is making a claim it cannot support.
How much does vitiligo treatment cost here?
Costs are quoted in writing after examination, because the number of sessions your patches need depends on their site, size and duration. The pricing structure is explained on the cost page.
Do you do vitiligo surgery?
Yes: melanocyte transplant and punch grafting, for disease that has been stable for about twelve months. Assessment for stability comes first, and being told to wait is a common outcome.
Where is the clinic, and how do I book?
Karkhana, Secunderabad: the practice you may know as BNR Skin & Vitiligo Hospital. Everything runs at that one address: consultation, phototherapy, excimer and surgery. Appointments are arranged on WhatsApp.
Do you treat children with vitiligo?
Yes. Children generally respond better than adults, and early treatment is the single biggest variable a family controls.
References
The clinical statements on this page follow the guidance and evidence below. They are independent sources. None of them is connected to this clinic, and none of them sells the treatments described here.
- Vitiligo: overview, causes and treatmentUS National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIH)
- Vitiligo: diagnosis and treatmentAmerican Academy of Dermatology
- VitiligoDermNet (New Zealand Dermatological Society)
- VitiligoNHS (United Kingdom)
- Consensus-based guidelines for surgical management of vitiligo, Vitiligo Task Force, IADVL Academy 2024–2025Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
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