Brauer Nevus of Eyebrow: A Rare Entity

Brauer nevus presents as a local circumscribed area of noncicatricial alopecia. It usually involves the frontotemporal scalp. We report an unusual case of Brauer nevus involving the right eyebrow. Trichoscopy helps to confirm the diagnosis and differentiate this condition from other types of nonscar...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Sumir, Kapoor, Priya, Kaur, Narvinderjeet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7659745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33223738
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_8_20
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description Brauer nevus presents as a local circumscribed area of noncicatricial alopecia. It usually involves the frontotemporal scalp. We report an unusual case of Brauer nevus involving the right eyebrow. Trichoscopy helps to confirm the diagnosis and differentiate this condition from other types of nonscarring alopecias. It also helps to avoid unnecessary diagnostic and therapeutic interventions.
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spelling pubmed-76597452020-11-19 Brauer Nevus of Eyebrow: A Rare Entity Kumar, Sumir Kapoor, Priya Kaur, Narvinderjeet Int J Trichology Case Report Brauer nevus presents as a local circumscribed area of noncicatricial alopecia. It usually involves the frontotemporal scalp. We report an unusual case of Brauer nevus involving the right eyebrow. Trichoscopy helps to confirm the diagnosis and differentiate this condition from other types of nonscarring alopecias. It also helps to avoid unnecessary diagnostic and therapeutic interventions. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 2020-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC7659745/ /pubmed/33223738 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_8_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 International Journal of Trichology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Brauer Nevus of Eyebrow: A Rare Entity
title Brauer Nevus of Eyebrow: A Rare Entity
title_full Brauer Nevus of Eyebrow: A Rare Entity
title_fullStr Brauer Nevus of Eyebrow: A Rare Entity
title_full_unstemmed Brauer Nevus of Eyebrow: A Rare Entity
title_short Brauer Nevus of Eyebrow: A Rare Entity
title_sort brauer nevus of eyebrow: a rare entity
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7659745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33223738
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijt.ijt_8_20
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