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NORMAN ORENTREICH, M.D.; HIRAM M. STURM, M.D.; ABRAHAM I. WEIDMAN, M.D.; ALFRED PELZIG, M.D.

Arch Dermatol. 1960;82(6):894-902.

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Introduction

The use of steroids in treating various types of alopecia dates back to 1952 when Dillaha and Rothman¹ reported that 3 out of 4 patients with alopecia areata of 5 or more years' duration responded to oral treatment with cortisone acetate. In these patients hair regrowth started after 4 weeks of therapy. The same authors² subsequently treated a series of 22 patients with alopecia totalis or universalis, and reported a patchy regrowth of hair in 16 patients. Rony and Cohen³ found that hydrocortisone acetate injected intradermally into the forearm of a patient with alopecia universalis produced local regrowth of hair within 4 weeks. Inunction of hydrocortisone acetate into sites of alopecia areata, performed by Sulzberger, Witten, and Smith,⁴ failed to produce hair regrowth.

Many other workers have used steroids, particularly corticosteroids, orally, parenterally, and locally, in treating alopecia areata.

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Author Affiliations
New York; Atlanta; Brooklyn; Forest Hills, N.Y.

From the Department of Dermatology and Syphilology of the New York University Post-Graduate Medical School, University Hospital, and the Skin and Cancer Unit (Dr. Marion B. Sulzberger, Chairman).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 8, 1960.

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