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Algie C. Brown, MD; Zbigniew L. Olkowski, MD; John R. McLaren, MD
Atlanta

Arch Dermatol. 1977;113(5):688.

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To the Editor.—

Previous authors have reported depression of peripheral thymus lymphocytes (T-cells) in atopic dermatitis.^1,2 Atopic dermatitis is frequently associated with another autoimmune disease, alopecia areata (AA). ³ We evaluated T-cell levels in 60 patients with AA who were between the ages of 2 and 52 years. T-cell levels in AA were compared to 51 normal controls.⁴ The mean percentage of T-lymphocytes in AA was 58.9% compared with the normal control population of 74.9%. The T-cell number per . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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