Alopecia Neoplastica due to Metastatic Colon Adenocarcinoma
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Alopecia neoplastica due to metastatic colon adenocarcinoma.
A 46-year-old woman attended our clinic in March 2004 for hair loss that had been present for the last 2 months. Her medical history showed that she had undergone total thyroidectomy for a papillary carcinoma in 1992; and hemicolectomy, total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy in August 2004 for colon adenocarcinoma. However, she did not undergo any chemotherapy or radio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Dermato-Venereologica
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0001-5555
DOI: 10.2340/00015555-0166