Woolly Hair Nevus: A Rare Entity

Woolly hair nevus is a rare non-hereditary focal condition characterized by unruly and tightly coiled hair. It can appear in childhood or adolescence and may be associated with epidermal or melanocytic nevus. Patients presenting with woolly hair must be examined completely to rule out cardiofaciocut...

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Autores principales: Venugopal, V, Karthikeyan, Subashini, Gnanaraj, Pushpa, Narasimhan, Murali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22628991
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.96090
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author Venugopal, V
Karthikeyan, Subashini
Gnanaraj, Pushpa
Narasimhan, Murali
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description Woolly hair nevus is a rare non-hereditary focal condition characterized by unruly and tightly coiled hair. It can appear in childhood or adolescence and may be associated with epidermal or melanocytic nevus. Patients presenting with woolly hair must be examined completely to rule out cardiofaciocutaneous and Noonan syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-33589402012-05-24 Woolly Hair Nevus: A Rare Entity Venugopal, V Karthikeyan, Subashini Gnanaraj, Pushpa Narasimhan, Murali Int J Trichology Case Report Woolly hair nevus is a rare non-hereditary focal condition characterized by unruly and tightly coiled hair. It can appear in childhood or adolescence and may be associated with epidermal or melanocytic nevus. Patients presenting with woolly hair must be examined completely to rule out cardiofaciocutaneous and Noonan syndrome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3358940/ /pubmed/22628991 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.96090 Text en Copyright: © International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Woolly Hair Nevus: A Rare Entity
title_full Woolly Hair Nevus: A Rare Entity
title_fullStr Woolly Hair Nevus: A Rare Entity
title_full_unstemmed Woolly Hair Nevus: A Rare Entity
title_short Woolly Hair Nevus: A Rare Entity
title_sort woolly hair nevus: a rare entity
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3358940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22628991
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.96090
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