Body Hair Transplantation: Case Report of Successful Outcome

Transplantation of body hair in to scalp has been suggested as an option to treat extensive cases of baldness with poor donor scalp. However, evidence about its long-term efficacy is yet lacking, with very few published reports and the routine use of the technique is still controversial. We report t...

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Autor principal: Mysore, Venkataram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3764758/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24023437
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.112676
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description Transplantation of body hair in to scalp has been suggested as an option to treat extensive cases of baldness with poor donor scalp. However, evidence about its long-term efficacy is yet lacking, with very few published reports and the routine use of the technique is still controversial. We report the satisfactory outcome in a case of extensive baldness in whom hairs from different donor areas such as chest, abdomen, arms, thighs were transplanted on to scalp.
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spelling pubmed-37647582013-09-10 Body Hair Transplantation: Case Report of Successful Outcome Mysore, Venkataram J Cutan Aesthet Surg Case Report Transplantation of body hair in to scalp has been suggested as an option to treat extensive cases of baldness with poor donor scalp. However, evidence about its long-term efficacy is yet lacking, with very few published reports and the routine use of the technique is still controversial. We report the satisfactory outcome in a case of extensive baldness in whom hairs from different donor areas such as chest, abdomen, arms, thighs were transplanted on to scalp. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3764758/ /pubmed/24023437 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2077.112676 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Cutaneous and Aesthetic Surgery 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3764758/
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