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Arch Dermatol. 2000;136:235-242.

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WITH THE PUBLICATION of the article by Zinkernagel and Trüeb¹ in this issue of the ARCHIVES, we have an opportunity to welcome a new member into the family of scarring alopecia. But should we? If we do, where will this new entity fit within the classification of scarring alopecia?

Zinkernagel and Trüeb describe 15 women and 4 men with a distinctive form of hair loss. Their basic premise is that these 19 patients suffer from a specific type of lichenoid inflammation selectively targeting the miniaturizing hairs of common balding. Evidence to support this novel hypothesis is as follows: All 19 patients had clinical and histologic features suggestive of androgenetic alopecia. These patients also had features of an inflammatory scarring alopecia confined to the zone involved by common balding. Perifollicular erythema and the loss of follicular ostia and follicular keratosis, features commonly seen in inflammatory scarring alopecia, were present in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

PSEUDOPELADE OF BROCQ


CENTRAL CENTRIFUGAL SCARRING ALOPECIA
Follicular Degeneration Syndrome

Pseudopelade

Folliculitis Decalvans

Tufted Folliculitis

LICHEN PLANOPILARIS
Graham-Little Syndrome

Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia

CHRONIC CUTANEOUS LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS

DISSECTING CELLULITIS

ACNE KELOIDALIS

SCARRING ALOPECIA SIMPLIFIED

FIBROSING ALOPECIA IN A PATTERN DISTRIBUTION

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