MORPHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EPIDERMIS AND DERMIS IN PATIENTS WITH DIFFUSE ALOPECIA, ANDROGENETIC ALOPECIA AND ALOPECIA AREATA

Personality characteristics and severity of depression in alopecia areata patients

The relationship between psychological factors and alopecia areata is already a controversial issue. Previous researches have mainly focussed on the impact of stressors and occasionally the underlying psychiatric disorders. The relationship of personality with this disease has not been investigated. A group of alopecia areata patients ( n=31) was compared with a control group ( n=31) of age mat...

Immunohistochemical analysis of T-cell subsets in the inflammatory infiltrates of alopecia areata and its comparison with androgenetic alopecia

Background: Androgenic hair loss (AGA) and alopecia areata (AA) are common conditions which sometimes are histologically difficult to differentiate. This study was conducted to detect differentiating features of these two disorders with IHC analysis of T-cell subsets in the inflammatory infiltrates of alopecia areata and androgenetic alopecia. Methods: This cr...

Androgenetic Alopecia

Alopecia Areata and Dermatoglyphics

Objective: To study of relationship between alopecia areata and finger print dermatoglyphic types in 100 patients with alopecia areata and in 100 controls. Methods: A case control analytical study was done on fingerprints of patients with alopecia areata. The control cases were older than 50 years old without any history of alopecia areata. Dermatoglyphical trials of total fingers were al...

Alopecia areata.

n engl j med 367;3 nejm.org july 19, 2012 279 methacin should be used in addition to pancre­ atic stents in high­risk patients. However, post hoc analysis of our trial suggests that indometha­ cin may obviate the need for prophylactic pan­ creatic stent placement (unpublished data), and we therefore agree with Baron et al. that com­ parative effectiveness studies of indomethacin and pancreatic ...