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ABRAHAM I. WEIDMAN, M.D.; LENA S. ZION, M.D.; ALFRED E. MAMELOK, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;74(4):424-426.

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The occurrence of alopecia areata in twins is rather uncommon, and to the best of our knowledge has never been reported to occur in circumstances similar to those here presented.

The unusual features of our case are the appearance of a patch of alopecia areata in both patients at about the same time, in the same location, and following an identical operation performed on the same day. The condition, however, has been observed in several members of the same, family and reported by Poynton,¹ Zinsser,² Warren,³ and others.^* In the case described by Warren, alopecia areata occurred in a 6-month-old boy whose father, grand-mother, uncle, and great aunt at some period of their lives, suffered from alopecia areata. Hiram E. Miller, in discussing a paper by Clark and Stibbens,⁴ mentions an instance of twins who developed alopecia areata three months apart. The lesions were not . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Brooklyn; New York

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Submitted for publication Dec. 30, 1955.

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