Turban PUVASOL: An Effective Treatment in Alopecia Totalis

Alopecia areata is characterized by patchy hair loss involving the scalp, eyelashes, and beard. The disease may at times lead to complete baldness of the scalp (alopecia totalis) or of the entire body (alopecia universalis). Alopecia totalis is usually resistant to therapy. We report two cases of al...

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Autores principales: Sornakumar, L, Sekar, C Shanmuga, Srinivas, CR
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3107953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21712898
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.77520
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author Sornakumar, L
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description Alopecia areata is characterized by patchy hair loss involving the scalp, eyelashes, and beard. The disease may at times lead to complete baldness of the scalp (alopecia totalis) or of the entire body (alopecia universalis). Alopecia totalis is usually resistant to therapy. We report two cases of alopecia totalis treated with turban psoralen with sunlight exposure (PUVASOL).
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spelling pubmed-31079532011-06-27 Turban PUVASOL: An Effective Treatment in Alopecia Totalis Sornakumar, L Sekar, C Shanmuga Srinivas, CR Int J Trichology Case Report Alopecia areata is characterized by patchy hair loss involving the scalp, eyelashes, and beard. The disease may at times lead to complete baldness of the scalp (alopecia totalis) or of the entire body (alopecia universalis). Alopecia totalis is usually resistant to therapy. We report two cases of alopecia totalis treated with turban psoralen with sunlight exposure (PUVASOL). Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3107953/ /pubmed/21712898 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.77520 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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Turban PUVASOL: An Effective Treatment in Alopecia Totalis
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title_full Turban PUVASOL: An Effective Treatment in Alopecia Totalis
title_fullStr Turban PUVASOL: An Effective Treatment in Alopecia Totalis
title_full_unstemmed Turban PUVASOL: An Effective Treatment in Alopecia Totalis
title_short Turban PUVASOL: An Effective Treatment in Alopecia Totalis
title_sort turban puvasol: an effective treatment in alopecia totalis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3107953/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21712898
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