Minoxidil induced hypertrichosis in a 2 year-old child

We report a case of a 2 year-old male patient who developed generalized hypertrichosis after 2 months of treatment with 5% minoxidil foam for alopecia areata. This report highlights the danger of prescribing  topical minoxidil to young children and the need to correctly instruct caretakers about its...

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Autores principales: Herskovitz, Ingrid, Freedman, Joshua, Tosti, Antonella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: F1000Research 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3886784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24555107
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-226.v1
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description We report a case of a 2 year-old male patient who developed generalized hypertrichosis after 2 months of treatment with 5% minoxidil foam for alopecia areata. This report highlights the danger of prescribing  topical minoxidil to young children and the need to correctly instruct caretakers about its administration.
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spelling pubmed-38867842014-01-13 Minoxidil induced hypertrichosis in a 2 year-old child Herskovitz, Ingrid Freedman, Joshua Tosti, Antonella F1000Res Case Report We report a case of a 2 year-old male patient who developed generalized hypertrichosis after 2 months of treatment with 5% minoxidil foam for alopecia areata. This report highlights the danger of prescribing  topical minoxidil to young children and the need to correctly instruct caretakers about its administration. F1000Research 2013-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3886784/ /pubmed/24555107 http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-226.v1 Text en Copyright: © 2013 Herskovitz I et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ Data associated with the article are available under the terms of the Creative Commons Zero "No rights reserved" data waiver (CC0 1.0 Public domain dedication).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3886784/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24555107
http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.2-226.v1
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