Methotrexate in Alopecia Areata: A Report of Three Cases

There are few studies about systemic treatment in severe cases of alopecia areata (AA), especially in the pediatric population. Although there is more experience with systemic corticosteroids, recent reports have suggested methotrexate (MTX) as an alternative treatment, with a relatively good outcom...

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Autores principales: Batalla, Ana, Flórez, Ángeles, Abalde, Teresa, Vázquez-Veiga, Hugo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5387883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28442879
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_67_16
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author Batalla, Ana
Flórez, Ángeles
Abalde, Teresa
Vázquez-Veiga, Hugo
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description There are few studies about systemic treatment in severe cases of alopecia areata (AA), especially in the pediatric population. Although there is more experience with systemic corticosteroids, recent reports have suggested methotrexate (MTX) as an alternative treatment, with a relatively good outcome. We describe three cases of AA in children treated with MTX, two of them with successful results.
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spelling pubmed-53878832017-04-25 Methotrexate in Alopecia Areata: A Report of Three Cases Batalla, Ana Flórez, Ángeles Abalde, Teresa Vázquez-Veiga, Hugo Int J Trichology Case Report There are few studies about systemic treatment in severe cases of alopecia areata (AA), especially in the pediatric population. Although there is more experience with systemic corticosteroids, recent reports have suggested methotrexate (MTX) as an alternative treatment, with a relatively good outcome. We describe three cases of AA in children treated with MTX, two of them with successful results. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5387883/ /pubmed/28442879 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_67_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Methotrexate in Alopecia Areata: A Report of Three Cases
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title_fullStr Methotrexate in Alopecia Areata: A Report of Three Cases
title_full_unstemmed Methotrexate in Alopecia Areata: A Report of Three Cases
title_short Methotrexate in Alopecia Areata: A Report of Three Cases
title_sort methotrexate in alopecia areata: a report of three cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5387883/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28442879
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_67_16
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