Neurodegenerative Disorders with Hair Abnormalities: An Emergency Room Consultation for Dermatologists

Menke′s syndrome and Elejalde disease are the two neurodegenerative disorders of dermatological interest. These patients present with characteristic hair changes which may be of diagnostic value in resource-poor setup where facilities for specific genetic analysis are not available. Simple light mic...

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Autores principales: Inamadar, Arun C, Palit, Aparna
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20805973
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.51929
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description Menke′s syndrome and Elejalde disease are the two neurodegenerative disorders of dermatological interest. These patients present with characteristic hair changes which may be of diagnostic value in resource-poor setup where facilities for specific genetic analysis are not available. Simple light microscopic examination of hair may be a helpful diagnostic tool to pick up such cases.
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spelling pubmed-29295542010-08-30 Neurodegenerative Disorders with Hair Abnormalities: An Emergency Room Consultation for Dermatologists Inamadar, Arun C Palit, Aparna Int J Trichology Case Report Menke′s syndrome and Elejalde disease are the two neurodegenerative disorders of dermatological interest. These patients present with characteristic hair changes which may be of diagnostic value in resource-poor setup where facilities for specific genetic analysis are not available. Simple light microscopic examination of hair may be a helpful diagnostic tool to pick up such cases. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2929554/ /pubmed/20805973 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.51929 Text en © International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Neurodegenerative Disorders with Hair Abnormalities: An Emergency Room Consultation for Dermatologists
title Neurodegenerative Disorders with Hair Abnormalities: An Emergency Room Consultation for Dermatologists
title_full Neurodegenerative Disorders with Hair Abnormalities: An Emergency Room Consultation for Dermatologists
title_fullStr Neurodegenerative Disorders with Hair Abnormalities: An Emergency Room Consultation for Dermatologists
title_full_unstemmed Neurodegenerative Disorders with Hair Abnormalities: An Emergency Room Consultation for Dermatologists
title_short Neurodegenerative Disorders with Hair Abnormalities: An Emergency Room Consultation for Dermatologists
title_sort neurodegenerative disorders with hair abnormalities: an emergency room consultation for dermatologists
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2929554/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20805973
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.51929
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