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Frontal fibrosing alopecia

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Pirmez R, Duque-Estrada B, Donati A, Campos-do-Carmo G, Valente NS, Romiti R, Sodré CT, Tosti A. Clinical and dermoscopic features of lichen planus pigmentosus in 37 patients with frontal fibrosing alopecia. Br J Dermatol. 2016 May 28. doi:
233:(finasteride or dutasteride) was associated with improvement in 47% and stabilization in 53% of patients Recently, successful treatment of facial papules in patients with frontal fibrosing alopecia was described with oral 514:
Pirmez R, Duque-Estrada B, Barreto T, Quintella DC, Cuzzi T. Successful Treatment of Facial Papules in Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia with Oral Isotretinoin. Skin Appendage Disord 2017;3:111-113. doi=10.1159/000464334
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Banka N, Mubki T, Bunagan MJ, Mcelwee K, Shapiro J. Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a retrospective clinical review of 62 patients with treatment outcome and long-term follow-up. Int J Dermatol. 2014;53(11):1324-30.
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Frontal fibrosing alopecia has been most often reported in post-menopausal women with higher levels of affluence and a negative smoking history. Autoimmune disease is found in 30% of patients.
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Pirmez R, Donati A, Valente NS, Sodré CT, Tosti A. Glabellar red dots in frontal fibrosing alopecia: a further clinical sign of vellus follicle involvement. Br J Dermatol. 2014;170(3):745-6.
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Vañó-galván S, Rodrigues-barata AR, Urech M, et al. Depression of the frontal veins: A new clinical sign of frontal fibrosing alopecia. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2015;72(6):1087-8.
40: 141:. It is a scarring alopecia that has been associated with facial papules, glabellar red dots, a loss of eyebrows, and prominent venous vasculature in the forehead. Facial 117:
and eyebrow loss in postmenopausal women that is associated with perifollicular erythema, especially along the hairline. It is considered to be a clinical variant of
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Vañó-galván S, Molina-ruiz AM, Serrano-falcón C, et al. Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a multicenter review of 355 patients. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2014;70(4):670-8.
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Lacarrubba, F; Micali, G; Tosti, A (Mar 18, 2013). "Absence Of Vellus Hair In The Hairline: A Videodermatoscopic Feature Of Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia".
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Although the pathogenesis of frontal fibrosing alopecia is poorly understood, autoimmune reaction and hormonal factors may play a role.
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Kossard S, Lee MS, Wilkinson B. Postmenopausal alopecia: a frontal variant of lichen planopilaris. J Am Acad Dermatol. 1997;36(1):59.
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Kossard S. Postmenopausal frontal fibrosing alopecia: scarring alopecia in a pattern distribution. Arch Dermatol 1994;130:770-4.
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Perifollicular erythema and scarring white patches are seen on dermoscopy. On scalp biopsy, lymphocytic and granulomatous
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Macdonald A, Clark C, Holmes S. Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a review of 60 cases. J Am Acad Dermatol. 2012;67(5):955-61.
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Wang, Monga I, Sallee BN, Chen JC, Abdelaziz AR, Perez-Lorenzo R, Bordone LA, Christiano AM (Jul 2022).
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Dhurat R, Saraogi P. Hair evaluation methods: merits and demerits. Int J Trichology. 2009;1(2):108-19.
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Improvement or stabilization of the condition has been reported with topical and intralesional
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with eccentric atrophy of follicular epithelia and perifollicular fibrosis are visualized.
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Herskovitz I, Tosti A. Female pattern hair loss. Int J Endocrinol Metab. 2013;11(4):e9860.
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that occurs in a bandlike pattern on the frontotemporal
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may occur in dark-skinned patients if association with
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hairline recession
lichen planopilaris
terminal
vellus hairs
scalp
hyperpigmentation
lichen planus pigmentosus
perifolliculitis
female pattern hair loss
telogen effluvium
alopecia areata
corticosteroids
antibiotics
hydroxychloroquine
immunomodulators
tacrolimus
5α-reductase inhibitors
antiandrogens
isotretinoin
Skin lesion
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"Primary cicatricial alopecias are characterized by dysregulation of shared gene expression pathways"
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