Annular Alopecia Areata: A Morphologically Rare Variant

Alopecia areata (AA) is the most common form of nonscarring alopecia involving the scalp and/or body. The most common pattern of hair loss is oval or round, but newer morphological variants are increasingly being described. We hereby report two cases of annular pattern of AA due to its unusual morph...

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Autores principales: Garg, Shimona, Kumar, Anand, Bhalla, Mala, Poonia, Kavita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5803852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29440858
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_60_17
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author Garg, Shimona
Kumar, Anand
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description Alopecia areata (AA) is the most common form of nonscarring alopecia involving the scalp and/or body. The most common pattern of hair loss is oval or round, but newer morphological variants are increasingly being described. We hereby report two cases of annular pattern of AA due to its unusual morphology.
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spelling pubmed-58038522018-02-13 Annular Alopecia Areata: A Morphologically Rare Variant Garg, Shimona Kumar, Anand Bhalla, Mala Poonia, Kavita Int J Trichology Case Report Alopecia areata (AA) is the most common form of nonscarring alopecia involving the scalp and/or body. The most common pattern of hair loss is oval or round, but newer morphological variants are increasingly being described. We hereby report two cases of annular pattern of AA due to its unusual morphology. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5803852/ /pubmed/29440858 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_60_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 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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Garg, Shimona
Kumar, Anand
Bhalla, Mala
Poonia, Kavita
Annular Alopecia Areata: A Morphologically Rare Variant
title Annular Alopecia Areata: A Morphologically Rare Variant
title_full Annular Alopecia Areata: A Morphologically Rare Variant
title_fullStr Annular Alopecia Areata: A Morphologically Rare Variant
title_full_unstemmed Annular Alopecia Areata: A Morphologically Rare Variant
title_short Annular Alopecia Areata: A Morphologically Rare Variant
title_sort annular alopecia areata: a morphologically rare variant
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5803852/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29440858
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_60_17
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