Yellow dots in trichoscopy: relevance, clinical significance and peculiarities

Yellow dots are follicular ostium filled with keratin and/or sebum. Initially, they were exclusively associated with alopecia areata. Currently they have also been described in androgenetic alopecia, chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus, and dissecting cellulitis. Due to the growing impor...

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Autores principales: Lima, Caren dos Santos, Lemes, Luciana Rodino, Melo, Daniel Fernandes
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2017
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Images in Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29166518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20176157
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description Yellow dots are follicular ostium filled with keratin and/or sebum. Initially, they were exclusively associated with alopecia areata. Currently they have also been described in androgenetic alopecia, chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus, and dissecting cellulitis. Due to the growing importance of trichoscopy and its findings in the evaluation of the scalp, this article describes the main diseases in which yellow dots are a common trichoscopic finding, highlighting its characteristics in each dermatosis.
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spelling pubmed-56747122017-11-13 Yellow dots in trichoscopy: relevance, clinical significance and peculiarities Lima, Caren dos Santos Lemes, Luciana Rodino Melo, Daniel Fernandes An Bras Dermatol Images in Dermatology Yellow dots are follicular ostium filled with keratin and/or sebum. Initially, they were exclusively associated with alopecia areata. Currently they have also been described in androgenetic alopecia, chronic cutaneous (discoid) lupus erythematosus, and dissecting cellulitis. Due to the growing importance of trichoscopy and its findings in the evaluation of the scalp, this article describes the main diseases in which yellow dots are a common trichoscopic finding, highlighting its characteristics in each dermatosis. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5674712/ /pubmed/29166518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20176157 Text en ©2017 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Yellow dots in trichoscopy: relevance, clinical significance and peculiarities
title_short Yellow dots in trichoscopy: relevance, clinical significance and peculiarities
title_sort yellow dots in trichoscopy: relevance, clinical significance and peculiarities
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5674712/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29166518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20176157
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