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FOLLICULITIS DECALVANS ET LICHEN SPINULOSUS (LITTLE)

FRANCIS A. ELLIS, M.D.; HAYDEN KIRBY-SMITH, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1941;43(4):628-635.

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In 1922¹ and 1936² Feldman presented detailed discussions of the subject of folliculitis decalvans et lichen spinulosus of Graham Little. According to Feldman, numerous investigators have studied this interesting disease and have reported it or closely similar conditions under the following titles: folliculitis decalvans et atrophicans (Little),³folliculite destructive des régions velues (Quinquand), folliculitis decalvans et lichen spinulosus (Ormsby,⁴ Senear,⁵ Graham Little⁶ and others), lichen spinulosus et folliculitis atrophica sycosiformis capillitii (Zurhelle and Beijerinch), lichen albus (von Zumbusch), dermatitis lichenoides chronica atrophicans (Csillag), lichen planus sclerosus et atrophicus (Hallopeau), lichen plan atrophique (Hallopeau), lichen plan sclereaux keloidiformis (Pawlow), lichen planus morphoeicus (Crocker), lichen planus seu spinulosus (Crocker, and Adamson⁷), folliculitis decalvans et atrophicans (McCarthy⁸), keratosis follicularis decalvans (McCafferty⁹) and lichen planopilaris of Pringle (Fruchtbaum¹⁰).

A review of the literature and the presentation of our cases support Feldman's contention that Graham . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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BALTIMORE; WASHINGTON, D. C.

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