Nail Involvement in Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia

A case of frontal fibrosing alopecia with nail involvement is presented. Nail involvement provides evidence for underlying lichen planus, and that the disease represents a rather generalized than localized process. Favorable response of the scalp condition to oral dutasteride points to an inflammato...

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Autores principales: Macpherson, Melanie, Hohendorf-Ansari, Parinaz, Trüeb, Ralph Michel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4502476/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26180450
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.160107
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description A case of frontal fibrosing alopecia with nail involvement is presented. Nail involvement provides evidence for underlying lichen planus, and that the disease represents a rather generalized than localized process. Favorable response of the scalp condition to oral dutasteride points to an inflammatory reaction on the background of androgenetic alopecia.
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spelling pubmed-45024762015-07-15 Nail Involvement in Frontal Fibrosing Alopecia Macpherson, Melanie Hohendorf-Ansari, Parinaz Trüeb, Ralph Michel Int J Trichology Case Report A case of frontal fibrosing alopecia with nail involvement is presented. Nail involvement provides evidence for underlying lichen planus, and that the disease represents a rather generalized than localized process. Favorable response of the scalp condition to oral dutasteride points to an inflammatory reaction on the background of androgenetic alopecia. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4502476/ /pubmed/26180450 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-7753.160107 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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