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Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a disease that remains enigmatic

Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is recognized to represent a generalized process of inflammatory scarring alopecia. Apart from the classic form affecting the frontal hairline, there are a range of disease manifestations involving loss of eyebrows and of eyelashes, loss of peripheral body hair, fibr...

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Autores principales: Lis-Święty, Anna, Brzezińska-Wcisło, Ligia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994767
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2020.98241
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description Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is recognized to represent a generalized process of inflammatory scarring alopecia. Apart from the classic form affecting the frontal hairline, there are a range of disease manifestations involving loss of eyebrows and of eyelashes, loss of peripheral body hair, fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution, facial and extrafacial skin, mucous membrane, and nail involvement. Classic linear, diffuse “zigzag”, pseudo “fringe sign”, androgenetic alopecia-like, cockade-like, ophiasis-like and incomplete patterns are distinguished. The aetiology of FFA remains obscure, but a number of pathogenetic hypotheses and treatments to halt disease progression have been proposed.
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spelling pubmed-75071712020-09-28 Frontal fibrosing alopecia: a disease that remains enigmatic Lis-Święty, Anna Brzezińska-Wcisło, Ligia Postepy Dermatol Alergol Review Paper Frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) is recognized to represent a generalized process of inflammatory scarring alopecia. Apart from the classic form affecting the frontal hairline, there are a range of disease manifestations involving loss of eyebrows and of eyelashes, loss of peripheral body hair, fibrosing alopecia in a pattern distribution, facial and extrafacial skin, mucous membrane, and nail involvement. Classic linear, diffuse “zigzag”, pseudo “fringe sign”, androgenetic alopecia-like, cockade-like, ophiasis-like and incomplete patterns are distinguished. The aetiology of FFA remains obscure, but a number of pathogenetic hypotheses and treatments to halt disease progression have been proposed. Termedia Publishing House 2020-09-02 2020-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7507171/ /pubmed/32994767 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2020.98241 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Termedia Sp. z o. o. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) License, allowing third parties to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and to remix, transform, and build upon the material, provided the original work is properly cited and states its license.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7507171/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32994767
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/ada.2020.98241
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