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Primary Idiopathic Pseudopelade of Brocq in a Young Child

Pseudopelade of Brocq (PPB) is a rare, chronic, slowly progressive cicatricial alopecia that generally affects middle-aged women. Vertex and parietal scalp are commonly involved. It can be primary or secondary to end stage of other scarring alopecia such as lichen planopilaris and discoid lupus eryt...

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Autores principales: Nair, Pragya Ashok, Singhal, Rochit, Pariath, Kira
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28932062
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_24_17
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description Pseudopelade of Brocq (PPB) is a rare, chronic, slowly progressive cicatricial alopecia that generally affects middle-aged women. Vertex and parietal scalp are commonly involved. It can be primary or secondary to end stage of other scarring alopecia such as lichen planopilaris and discoid lupus erythematosus. It is diagnosed by exclusion both clinically and trichoscopy. There is no standard treatment for PPB. We hereby report a case of rapidly progressing primary idiopathic pseudopelade of Brocq in a young female child confirmed by trichoscopy and histopathology.
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spelling pubmed-55966452017-09-20 Primary Idiopathic Pseudopelade of Brocq in a Young Child Nair, Pragya Ashok Singhal, Rochit Pariath, Kira Int J Trichology Case Report Pseudopelade of Brocq (PPB) is a rare, chronic, slowly progressive cicatricial alopecia that generally affects middle-aged women. Vertex and parietal scalp are commonly involved. It can be primary or secondary to end stage of other scarring alopecia such as lichen planopilaris and discoid lupus erythematosus. It is diagnosed by exclusion both clinically and trichoscopy. There is no standard treatment for PPB. We hereby report a case of rapidly progressing primary idiopathic pseudopelade of Brocq in a young female child confirmed by trichoscopy and histopathology. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5596645/ /pubmed/28932062 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_24_17 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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title_short Primary Idiopathic Pseudopelade of Brocq in a Young Child
title_sort primary idiopathic pseudopelade of brocq in a young child
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5596645/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28932062
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_24_17
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